James McAvoy On Potential Return As Professor X For Marvel Studios

X-Males star James McAvoy has shared his ideas on doubtlessly returning to the function of Professor X for Marvel Studios.

James McAvoy made his debut as Professor X in 2011’s X-Males: First Class earlier than reprising the function in three extra films Marvel films from twentieth Century Fox — Days of Future Previous, Apocalypse and Darkish Phoenix. Whereas McAvoy’s time because the chief of the X-Males got here to an finish after Disney’s acquisition of twenty first Century Fox, GQ not too long ago requested the actor if he’d be keen to reprise the function within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“I’m very fast to say, ‘No, I’m carried out.’ Or ‘I’m not that bothered about coming again.’ Since you transfer ahead,” McAvoy instructed GQ. “I’ve positively not acquired the decision. And if I did I’d positively not be telling you.”

Whereas James McAvoy describes his work within the X-Males films as one in every of his “most optimistic experiences” with a studio, with Days of Future Previous being a career-highlight, the actor isn’t pleased with how the collection dealt with the connection between Professor X and Michael Fassbender’s Magneto.

“My greatest criticism of what we did all through the 4 films was that after the primary film, we didn’t benefit from the connection between [Xavier and Michael Fassbender’s Magneto], which actually fashioned the spine of the primary movie,” he defined. “So it was like, why did we simply eject that large weapon?”

Now that Marvel is exploring the Multiverse in live-action, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender might as soon as once more get the chance to share the display screen as their two X-Males characters, identical to a few of their former solid members. Patrick Stewart not too long ago performed a variant of Professor X in Sam Raimi’s Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity. In the meantime, Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds have signed on to reprise their roles as Wolverine and Deadpool within the MCU.

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Supply: GQ