 The original agreed to and tested design was, to color her skin with cosmetic grade food coloring as well, but at the last minute Bryan Singer insisted on painting her skin to look opaque, as in the comic book, which added six hours to the makeup, making the ordeal very difficult for her.There were also no facilities provided to exhaust paint fumes, during one of Canada's colder winters.Romijn reflected, "I had almost no contact with the rest of the cast; it was like I was making a different movie from everyone else.