Zoe Saldana 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' is playing 'Gamora', a character that entails grueling makeup as she is green from heat to toe!

The actress shares the hardship of playing the part and also how she depended most on the support of her husband and mom's loving gestures. "They would have a bath just ready for me," the actress said. "I would just submerge myself in a very hot bath and that tub was just absolutely green."

Her character means she has to endure hours of makeup preps before takes and even more after. "We had a very good makeup removal process that lasted about an hour and 15 minutes," she said. "We would take a lot off. I just hated going to bed with all those chemicals still on me even though I rubbed them off."

This was the main reason why she almost didn't take the role in the first place. "That was kind of the canker sore of the whole experience of wanting to do 'Guardians' and that almost made me say no," Zoe said. "It was gonna be a little grueling and I'm a very impatient person - I can't sit still, so I was gonna drive everybody crazy!"

"[It took] four to five hours every day, [with] six-day weeks for five months. It was fun, it was tons of fun," she joked, adding that the paint came with her after the lights are off. "Green was on my pillows, and in my tub, and I'd blow my nose and I'm like, 'Oh my God, when is this gonna stop coming out of my lungs?'" she laughed. "It was just crazy."

Saldana's pet puppy, Mugsy, also had to endure the green, as he followed her on set every day, it was hard to avoid the paint not getting into his fur. "She's on my lap as I'm getting all the makeup done and I would put a towel over her because she's salt and pepper," she said. "All the spray paint would be in the air and land on Mugs."

Mugsy also gets the oral treatment, of course, as his master would make her dog go from bow to wow with a fun, cute look. "We would paint all these little green Mohawks on her," she said. "My dog was green!"

"The first month is very challenging, because you have to adjust to the rhythm to the tone of everything, to leaving the set, leaving work at night and arriving at night," she said. "But then when you see the end result, it's so rewarding, you feel like, 'I did that!'

"I wanted to sort of tap into and kind of go, 'Well, at least I did that, and cross it off my bucket list," she added. "And it was fun and it was eventful."