David Cross has admitted that he hated wearing the Blue Man Group's paint on Arrested Development.

The actor was forced to don the paint in a series of Arrested Development episodes where his character Dr Tobias Funke attempted to join the Blue Man Group, which he mistakenly believed was a men's support group.

Speaking to Playboy, the actor revealed that it was a hassle to put on the blue body make-up.

"It was a huge pain in the ass. It took a long time to get completely made up, and then you couldn't touch anything," Cross recalled.

"The paint is fairly greasy, and if you touched anything at all, even just a finger to your nose, it'd smudge and you'd have to go back to make-up. So I'd be sitting there for hours, trying not to touch anything."

Cross also revealed that even the Blue Man Group themselves eventually objected to the way the Arrested Development crew applied the blue paint.

"At the end of the day I'd have to take a minimum of two showers and quite often three before I'd get it all off and could go to bed. There was no jerking off without serious colourful repercussions," he quipped.

The actor continued: "Then in the last season the real Blue Man Group was on the show, and George Sr (Jeffrey Tambor) had become a member. They were putting the blue make-up on him, and the Blue Man guys were like, 'No, no, no. What are you doing? We don't do it that way'.

"Apparently they just wear a big blue unitard with an oval opening for the face, and their face is the only part they actually paint blue. Makes sense if you think about it, but I wish I had f**king known that two years earlier. It would've saved me a lot of misery."

Cross recently revealed that he is more optimistic about the Arrested Development reunion following the announcement that the miniseries and movie will shoot this year.

Arrested Development earned six Emmys and a Golden Globe during its three-season run on Fox.

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Watch a clip of Tobias's attempt to join Blue Man Group on Arrested Development below:

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