On How She Prepared For The Role Of Mystique:
"I didn't really learn much about it until a few auditions in, and then I started doing that research right before I did the movie."
On What We Should Expect To See In The Movie:
"Honestly, I like anything, any character, any movie that has a beginning, a middle and an end, anything that goes through an arc and then there's a change and then you end somewhere you weren't in the beginning. That's just what this movie is. It's a prequel, and all of the characters and their relationships - they go through so much from the beginning. They change and there's so much that happens in their lives. I just really thought that script was so good."
On The X-Men: First Class Version Of The Character:
"Gosh. I don't know what I'm allowed to say! This is before she became the Mystique that we know her as, the mutant-and-proud, the tough girl. This is when she's an insecure teenage girl - insecure about her hidden secret thing, a mutant, of being blue."
If you're looking forward to seeing the "insecure teenage girl" version of Mystique, be sure to check it out when
X-Men: First Class is released on June 3, 2011!