Sivakarthikeyan talks about his nurse look in Remo

"Prettying up is the toughest part of playing a woman,��� says Sivakarthikeyan. He didn���t expect that he���d take hours of getting ready every day to look like a nurse. ���The make-up was the toughest part. By the time I���d be done putting on my make-up and outfit, it would take me four-and-a-half hours! So once I was in costume I���d just stay in it,��� recalls the actor, laughing.
When he heard director Bakkiyaraj Kannan narrate the script of Remo, Sivakarthikeyan confessedly had serious reservations about the prospect of playing a pretty nurse.���I loved the story, but I was worried about how I���ll look as a woman ��� a pretty one at that. My biggest reservation was about the cross-dressing bit. Infact, I said, ���I���ll do the film only if the parts that would have me cross-dress would be reduced to say 15 minutes.��� But Kannan was adamant and said that I had to carry off the nurse costume for at least a one-hour duration for the story to work,��� shares the actor.
Apparently, Remo is an acronym for ���Regina Motwani���, the svelte nurse avatar of Sivakarthikeyan in the film. The not-so-veiled reference to Regina Cassandra and Hansika Motwani in the character���s name was also deliberate. And zeroing in on the look turned out to be a nine-month-long project. ���Getting the look right was critical for the film���s success. It took us eight screen tests over a period of nine months to perfect my nurse look in Remo. The first four looks I must say were disasters ��� they didn���t work. But from the fifth attempt onwards it started falling in place,��� reminisces Sivakarthikeyan.