Few performers working today feel simultaneously so visible and anonymous as Rebecca Romijn. A generation of X-Men fans rightly recognize her as an icon for her portrayal of the shape-shifting mutant Mystique in Fox’s X-Men movies. But as Romijn reveals to Inverse years after the fact, few fans today actually recognize the actor beneath the makeup.
“I’m so camouflaged,” Romijn muses. “People don’t know what I look like in real life, … but it’s nice also to disappear into a character that way. A big part of getting into character in the first three X-Men movies for me was going through that makeup process.”
