As "X-Men: The Last Stand" soars at the box office, actor Ben Foster has been talking about his experiences wearing wings for the character of Angel. It wasn't as hard as some press reports have suggested, he told SciFi Wire.

"It wasn't thrilling at four in the morning having strangers glue things to your back in the cold Vancouver air," Foster said in an interview. "But it wasn't gruelling. It was unpleasant at first, and it was more unpleasant taking them off because it's heavy glue and real wings taken off the skin. But once they're on, you feel great. It's maybe a drag again at four in the afternoon, when you haven't worked, and you can't sit. Angels don't sit, apparently, so they just kind of pose and stand or sleep on couches face-down. So that's kind of a drag, but not gruelling."

In the movie, Angel is 'recruited' by his father to demonstrate the effects of a wonder drug that suppresses mutancy. Despite the physical and emotional weight that wings put on Angel's back, however, he is reluctant to lose them. Foster, it seems, also found some satisfaction in having the unique appendages.

"It was really cool," Foster said. "You stand differently when you have wings on your back. They were not heavy. They were made of really light material. It's weird telling secrets because when I watch something, I get really excited, and when I hear how they did it, it bums me out. 'Oh, yeah, well, that's foam.'"

"X-Men: The Last Stand" is now in theaters.