James McAvoy On His Longtime Love Of The X-Men And His Favourite Mutant!

James McAvoy On His Longtime Love Of The X-Men And His Favourite Mutant!

The Scottish actor talks briefly about just how long he's been a fan of the X-Men for, shares his thoughts on the past movies, and reveals which of the mutant superheroes is his favourite...

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By JoshWilding - Apr 12, 2011 10:04 AM EST
Filed Under: X-Men
Source: The Wall Street Journal

The actor, who has a leading role as Professor Charles Xavier in June's X-Men: First Class, was quizzed by The Wall Street Journal at the premiere of his latest movie The Conspirator last night about his role in the movie and his longtime love of the characters.



"I was a fan of the X-Men cartoon growing up as a teenager," McAvoy said. "The first couple of movies as well were really good, but I never read the comic books cause we didn’t get them in my country."

Interesting how he mentions that only the first couple of movies were good, eh? Of course, he's not wrong when you compare them to X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but here's hoping that this also means that the upcoming prequel will definitely have nothing to do with either of them! That's not to say he's not looking forward to putting his own stamp on the X-Men movie universe: "That’s why I like being an actor. You get to change what you do everyday."

So, who is his favourite X-Man? It's not Professor Xavier anyway! "Gambit," he revealed. "Gambit was my favorite character."

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



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Bobby2889
Bobby2889 - 4/12/2011, 10:57 AM
In Scotland? lol to be fair they are pretty hard to come by, or at least would have been while he was growing up. We don't really have LCBS in the UK so I get that. Before people say 'well thats crap' im just saying growing up he has a point. Anyway let the haters hate, with no valid critisism or logical trains of thought

First?
RedeyeJedi
RedeyeJedi - 4/12/2011, 10:58 AM
First!!
RedeyeJedi
RedeyeJedi - 4/12/2011, 10:58 AM
Damn!!
Bobby2889
Bobby2889 - 4/12/2011, 11:04 AM
@Sorcerer123: I think the barely literate refer to it as fist a$$ actually. No 'r'. They can just about handle that level of 'pun'. Though since you spell Sorceror with two 'e's I probably shouldn't be telling you this :-p -I'm messing with you-
nuck82
nuck82 - 4/12/2011, 11:20 AM
lol fist fail!!!!
nuck82
nuck82 - 4/12/2011, 11:32 AM
realy tea? man you guys suck over there lol, and i do mean suck : O
soberchimera
soberchimera - 4/12/2011, 11:42 AM
Well the cartoon was pretty damn faithful to the comics, so if you watched it then you would have a pretty good grip of what the X-Men are about.
Bobby2889
Bobby2889 - 4/12/2011, 11:49 AM
Thats how I started getting into it lol
nuck82
nuck82 - 4/12/2011, 11:50 AM
@ tea, maybe they thought you couldnt read english over there, since you have such a hard time speaking it ; ) lol
VictorHugo
VictorHugo - 4/12/2011, 11:50 AM
Which country James McAvoy is from? Antartida?
Here in Brazil we get X-men translated faithfully for 50 years, and in Argentina too.
nuck82
nuck82 - 4/12/2011, 12:04 PM
taste the raindow : p
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 4/12/2011, 12:27 PM
Wait, he didn't read comics as a kid? This is going to be like [frick]ing Twilight for sure now!! [frick] Fox, they should call this thing X-Men: First A$$, hahaha.
Konel110693
Konel110693 - 4/12/2011, 12:32 PM
BOBBY2889@ ok im gonna say it :L THTS SHIT! i live in aberdeen scotland and ive read x-men comics since i was 6 :L so i dont get where youse lived :L
Konel110693
Konel110693 - 4/12/2011, 12:32 PM
BOBBY2889@ ok im gonna say it :L THTS SHIT! i live in aberdeen scotland and ive read x-men comics since i was 6 :L so i dont get where youse lived :L
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 4/12/2011, 12:35 PM
connor, yeah tell em, [frick] first a$$!!

Btw, did you grow up in the 80's like MacAvoy did or are you referring to a more recent childhood?
AC1
AC1 - 4/12/2011, 1:06 PM
yeah, it really sucks how hard it is to get the good comics over here, and they're really overpriced here too!
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/12/2011, 2:27 PM
who gives a shit
JayTopStix
JayTopStix - 4/12/2011, 3:06 PM
@teabag who is that hottie?
Bobby2889
Bobby2889 - 4/12/2011, 3:19 PM
@connor110693: lucky man. My point was a lot of American kids are raised on them. As a culture we do not have that thing of comics being right there and everyone having read them. You kinda have to be looking for them. Not that they are out of the way but you dont often get a comic book store in every town. Okay you do these days sure but like when I was a kid, even in say the early 90s it was only just getting there. Cities had em sure, but they were discussed by the general populace.
113
113 - 4/12/2011, 3:56 PM
Can't really argue with Gambit
CaptainAmerica
CaptainAmerica - 4/12/2011, 6:00 PM
WTF? You got a tattoo on your lower back Tea?
xhex022
xhex022 - 4/12/2011, 7:10 PM
haha gambits my fav too
fullmetal
fullmetal - 4/13/2011, 12:28 PM
too bad they screwed gambit over
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