 While Topher Grace (qv) was a big comic book fan and had read the  first Venom stories as a boy, he found the suit he had to wear as  Venom extremely unpleasant. It took an hour to put on (and four  hours to apply the prosthetics); and it had to be constantly smeared  with goo to give it a liquid organic feel. Grace also had to wear  fangs, which bruised his gums.