Talking to MTV Splash Page, the actor has revealed that despite the ending of X-Men: First Class, he still doesn't view Magneto as a full on villain. "I don't think he's a bad guy. I think he's all right, isn't he? Human beings having been doing some bad shit to him."
In fact, it sounds like he's more interested in exploring the origin story of Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) in the sequel after a movie where the spotlight remained almost entirely on him. "I'm very interested to see where we pick up with Charles Xavier, to be honest. In the film we just did, 'First Class,' we got to see how Magneto becomes Magneto, how he leaves Erik behind and takes on the persona of Magneto. We've yet to see how Charles develops into Professor X. I think that's going to be interesting to take a look at."
"I bumped into James literally just before I came over to the States to do all this press, and we're both pretty keen to sit down with [the director] Matthew [Vaughn]," he added. "Hopefully Matthew's going to be interested in doing the next one, if that's the case, and really getting in there at the ground level with the writer and get some of our ideas in there."
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