At the tender age of fourteen, she may not have envisaged her acting career leading her to be covered in blue paint, but that is exactly what she had to endure for her part in X-Men: First Class. Lawrence describes the daily process that she had to go through to transform herself into mutant shape-shifter Mystique. "I was rubbed down with alcohol over my whole body, then shaved, and then they started airbrushing me," she recalls. "It's like really cold, compressed air, all over my body. That was the hardest part to get used to, especially on my bum and feet, because it really tickles. After that, the hand-made scales are placed on, and then I was splattered with five different shades of blue paint. The different colours create a marble effect on my skin, so the end result is very cool."