Radha Mitchell's Tooth Pain

4 months ago 22nd Sep 13:30

Radha Mitchell hated bleaching her teeth for 'Surrogates'

The US actress admits she wasn't quite prepared for the physical lengths she'd have to go for her latest clone-thriller film, in which she stars opposite Bruce Willis.

In the film Radha plays a human and her 'surrogate' or a perfected robotic version of herself and says the film's producers required her to make drastic change to make her robot self more believable.

It was also confronting to be the robot version because they dissected us, physically

She said: "It was also confronting to be the robot version because they dissected us, physically. They went through and said, 'Your teeth need to be whitened' and, 'You need to change this'. It was quite confronting and you're thinking, 'No, I'm not going to change'.

"Then you submit to the process and bleach your teeth and discover that it's incredibly painful. I don't recommend it."

She also added how, to make her character in real life more believable, she was required to change her looks again.

She explained: "Initially I was saying, 'No, I think the human version should be just me without all the makeup and all the c**p on.' But it actually became fun because I had a padded butt and weird teeth and a slightly different nose.

"I put a lot of effort into this kind of shifted look and I realised if you can change your costume so kind of

randomly, you can be anybody you want, so who really cares what you look like."