Regé-Jean Page says he sweated so much in his 'Dungeons & Dragons' costume it became a 'scuba suit' filled with his 'own juices'
- Regé-Jean Page stars in the new "Dungeons & Dragons" live action film with Chris Pine and Hugh Grant.
- Page said he had problems with the armor for his character, the paladin Xenk.
Regé-Jean Page's costume in "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" was somewhat of a hot mess.
In a recent interview with BBC Radio 1, the former "Bridgerton" actor, 34, discussed what wearing armor on the set of the new film adaptation of the role-playing game of the same name, according to Entertainment Weekly.
"Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves," which also stars Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, and Hugh Grant, opened Friday.
Page, who plays paladin Xenk, said his costume was by far the most "uncomfortable" out of the entire cast.
"Filming in armor is not where you want to be," he said. "You're hot all day. You can't sit down. The sweat goes nowhere — it just kind of hangs out. It becomes a scuba suit, just with your own juices. It was delicious."
According to the outlet, Page compared his experience of wearing armor to that of Robert Downey Jr. during his tenure as Iron Man: "I made the Robert Downey Jr. mistake."
Downey Jr., 57, previously discussed his own grievances with wearing an armored suit early into his days working with Marvel Studios in his 2020 interview on David Letterman's "My Next Guests Needs No Introduction" on Netflix.
Downey Jr. said that when he first started playing Iron Man, there was little to no CGI when it came to his suit.
"Initially, everything was really there. They wanted to spend as little as they could on CG replacement, so I remember this helmet went on, and there'd be a shot, and I'd be in this whole suit, and they'd say, 'alright, Robert, it's like you landed on the roof, so when we say action, just go like that, like you just landed, and then start moving forward.'
"So I put this helmet on, and it slammed closed, and I couldn't see anything, and then these LED lights went on and it was like 'The Manchurian Candidate.' I was absolutely blinded," he said.
"By the time we were doing the last 'Avengers'," he added. "They'd just be like, 'Hey Robert would you mind putting on that helmet? No?! Yes? No, put two dots here and then you can paint it in later'."
It's not the first time Page has discussed the discomfort of his armored costume. Speaking to Variety at the Academy Awards on March 13, the actor said he couldn't even sit down while wearing it.
"It was hot, everything's kind of digging into your ribs," he said. "You're trying do these complicated fight sequences and nothing moves quite how it's meant to. Chain mail, plate armor? None of this is made for comfort."