Jennifer Lawrence put off X-Men by paint fumes

Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique in X-Men: First Class.

Jennifer Lawrence says she was put off working on any more X-Men movies because of the overwhelming fumes from the paint required to transform her into the character Mystique - but that doesn't mean she won't do it again.

The Hunger Games actress told Entertainment Weekly that "fumes and toxins" weren't a big concern when she started with the X-Men franchise as a 20-year-old.

"I love working with Bryan, and I love these movies," she said. "It's just the paint."

"Now I'm almost 25 and I'm like, 'I can't even pronounce this and that's going in my nose? I'm breathing that?'"

However, she could still don the blue paint and play Mystique again.

"There is hope," she told Entertainment Weekly. "I don't want to not be asked."

While filming X-Men: First Class, Lawrence's body-painting was an eight hour daily process, she told the Hollywood Reporter in 2011.

She described the process of getting into character as: "One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over".

For the last two movies, a bodysuit has taken the place of some of the paint, Uproxx reported.

- nzherald.co.nz