IRON MAN 2 Actress Olivia Munn Cast As 'Psylocke' In X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
X-Men: Apocalypse has added another mutant to the mix. Director Bryan Singer has announced via Instagram that Mortdecai actress Olivia Munn has joined the ensemble cast of the upcoming X-Men sequel. Come check it out!
A few weeks ago, we heard Fox was actively looking to cast the role of Psylocke in their upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse, and now, with production set to kick off shortly, it looks like they've finally found their actress. In an Instagram post, director Bryan Singer has announced that Olivia Munn will join the giant ensemble cast of the upcoming sequel to 2014's X-Men: Days Of Future Past as the telepathic Betsy Braddock a.k.a. Psylocke! This marks Munn's second foray into the comic book movie genre as she also had a small part in 2010's Iron Man 2. A few of her other recent projects include roles in Lionsgate's Mortdecai, HBO's The Newsroom, and NBC's Chuck.
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"You won’t feel at the end of the movie that it set up Apocalypse. What it does is it sets up possibilities. But what we’ll discover in Apocalypse is that events in this movie made that happen. … Apocalypse deals with ancient mutancy. What would humans have thought mutants were? What would mutants think humans were? You’re dealing with gods and things like that. And what if one survived and what if that found its way into our world?" -Bryan Singer
X-Men: Apocalypse will feature:
Director: Bryan Singer
Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine
James McAvoy as Charles Xavier/Professor X
Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto
Jennifer Lawrence as Raven Darkholme/Mystique
Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy/Beast
Evan Peters as Peter Maximoff/Quicksilver
Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse
Channing Tatum as Remy LaBeau/Gambit
Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers/Cyclops
Sophie Turner as Jean Grey/Phoenix
Alexandra Shipp as Ororo Munroe/Storm
Kodi Smit-McPhee as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler
Ben Hardy as Warren Worthington III/Archangel
Olivia Munn as Betsy Braddock/Psylocke
X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters May 27, 2016