James McAvoy Interview

James McAvoy Reveals Some Major X-Men: First Class Spoilers!

As well as discussing new details about the characters and specific scenes in the upcoming prequel, the actor also reveals whether or not we will see Charles confined to an wheelchair and lose his hair in the movie...
In a huge interview with IGN Movies, the Scottish actor goes into a great amount of detail about his role in X-Men: First Class, and below are just a few of the highlights. To read it in its entirety, be sure to head on over to the site by clicking on the link below!

So does that scene with his legs happen in the film?

Yeah, it does. We see why he can no longer walk and why he is in a wheelchair. And hopefully we'll find out why he lost his hair as well. In the comics he loses his hair when he sort of gains or discovers his powers. But obviously that is not the way they wanted to go in this case.

Were you wondering what you would look like with a shaved head?

Yeah, I shaved it not that long ago, so when I started this my hair was particularly short and they wanted me with long hair. It was one of the only studio notes I got, they wanted me to have hair. So we had a lot of extensions for the first month. But yeah, I was kind of up for shaving my head. The only thing with shaving your head, there is just so much make-up that has to go onto it and so much CG-ing ultimately and dialling down with lighting tones and stuff, because basically if you shave your head you just look like a guy who shaved his head; you don't look like a guy who is actually bald.

So how do you approach playing a young Patrick Stewart? Are you mimicking his voice?

No. At one point in very early rehearsals Matthew spoke to Michael and I about doing a voice and we did for about two minutes and he just kind of scotched that straight away.

And is there any kind of a love triangle element involving Erik or is it just a bit of romance between you and Rose?

Between me and Rose it's just me and Rose. There is a love triangle between me, Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence who plays Raven. It's not a love triangle... basically she's my assistant in this film, and obviously by the other films she is not my assistant anymore; she is very much not my assistant. Actually that's quite good fun to see how that relationship disintegrates as well and why she ultimately goes over to the dark side as well.

his is moviemaking on a huge scale - does it help your performance to work on these huge sets and in these massive man-made environments?

Yeah, walking around Cerebro [Xavier's device for detecting other mutants] for the first time, it's quite good fun. Did you get to see Cerebro?

No, just a model.

Yeah, that is pretty cool and as much as its massive and big and all that, it was still dead-60s, so it's almost quite low-tech. Low-tech in the way that they didn't have a microchip so the computers have to be massive and hanging off the walls everywhere. There are lots of flashy lights and spools of films. That was fun. It is quite nice but the weird thing is in all these films you've got to try to get it; you've got to try and bring yourself down in the moment between the two and three and four actors that are there and try and make it as vital and real and from moment-to-moment as possible, otherwise it does just become a bit set.

The one where they are messing about with their powers?

Yeah, it's basically like the first night of their new mutant existence and they all get a bit drunk and show their powers off to each other, wreck the [frick]ing joint and then CIA come in and go 'Oi, for God's sake, you're on Presidential money here at the moment. We've got some work to do.' And I never liked the scene, but I realized the reason I didn't like the scene is because I shouldn't be in it and neither should Michael. They ultimately at the last minute wrote both him and I out of it, which I am really grateful for because it was a scene for the younger element. And I think it does help that we are a bit older than... there is a real of teacher/pupil dynamic going on in Charles' eyes anyway; not so much from Erik but in Charles' eyes anyway I think he quite likes that dynamic, I think he wants to cultivate that.

X-Men: First Class is set to be released on June 3, later this year!

non_amos wrote:Why call this X-Men: First Class? Why not call it a more accurate title: 'I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Eric'? I mean, it is a 'love story', right?

thecolorsblend wrote:Can someone explain to me how Singer even has a career anymore?