Jackie Earle Haley has revealed that he struggled with the make-up in his new movie A Nightmare On Elm Street.
The actor takes over the role of Freddy Kruger, a role made famous by Robert Englund, in the revamp of the horror classic.
He told HitFix that the make-up was "the most cumbersome, arduous stuff I've ever dealt with".
"They are painstakingly gluing this [stuff] down. It's all the way up to my eyes and on my eyelids. I mean poking and prodding.
"I remember sitting there and thinking 'It has to be better going to the dentist'. Since then I have been to the dentist and I was right."
Directed by Samuel Bayer the movie also stars Kellan Lutz and Thomas Dekker and follows a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality.
Haley has had a successful few years on the big screen, after being nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar back in 2006 for his role in Little Children.
Since then he has mixed and matched his roles taking on the part as Rorschach in the big screen adaptation of graphic novel Watchmen.
He has enjoyed more box office success this year as part of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel.
A Nightmare On Elm Street is released 7th May.