Fandango caught up with actor Adan Canto at a press event for his upcoming ABC comedy,
Mixology and asked the up-and-comer about his role as Bobby da Costa in director Bryan Singer's
X-Men: Days of Future Past. "It wasn't entirely a new world because I had followed the previous movies, but I did jump into the comic books world a bit to understand: Who is this guy? What's his life like?," said Canto on joining Fox's cinematic world of mutant superheroes. When asked about his preparation for the role, Canto shared, "I just find I work better that way when I understand what's in his mind, where he's coming from. I pretty much took most of the things I read and I brought them to the table. He's a fiery guy. There's a lot of passion with Sunspot – a lot of experiences that brought him to want to explode all the time, but he's a positive guy. There was just a lot of material – very helpful!”
Of course, longtime fans of the
X-Men series will have to wonder if Canto did all of this research for what will amount to a simple glorified cameo? But to be fair, Singer (arguably) gave all the featured characters in
X-Men and
X2 their appropriate level of screen time. It wasn't until
X-Men Origins: Wolverine and
X-Men: The Last Stand that the series jumped the rails with overloaded, continuity confounding character dumps. We'll all be able to find out just how much screen time Sunspot will receive in 'Days of Future Past' when the film opens in North America on May 23.
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| The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The beloved characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class, in an epic battle that must change the past -- to save our future. X-Men: Days of Future Past has wrapped filming, and stars Hugh Jackman (Prisoners), James McAvoy (Filth), Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Michael Fassbender(Shame, The Counselor), Ian McKellen (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug), Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies), Omar Sy (The Intouchables), Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Halle Berry(Monster's Ball, Cloud Atlas), Adan Canto (The Following), Fan Bingbing (Bodyguards and Assassins), Anna Paquin (True Blood), Evan Peters (Kick-Ass, American Horror Story), Daniel Cudmore (Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn), Ellen Page (Inception, Super) & Booboo Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1). Bryan Singer (Superman Returns, X2) directs the film in theaters May 23, 2014! |