James McAvoy, who has played Professor X since 20th Century Studios rebooted the X-Men franchise with 2011's “X-Men: First Class,” said, diverse He said he would “always be interested” in playing the professor again, depending on the quality of the project.
“I’ve always said, if there’s a good role, if there’s a good opportunity to tell a good story, I’m always interested in it, whether it’s something I’ve done before or something completely new,” McAvoy said. “If there’s good material, I’m always ready to respond. I’m always ready. Always ready! The actor is ready! It has to be good, and they have to want to do it, so it’s all hypothetical.”
McAvoy has expressed interest in playing Charles Xavier in diverse It was presented by Google TV at the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con convention. The question was asked when he was asked if he had seen the latest Marvel movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Warning, there are minor spoilers for “Deadpool & Wolverine” below.
Although the actor admitted that he had not seen the film yet, he knew that he would appear in the end credits, and there was no chance of him appearing in the film.
“I know, I know! I knew I was going to be in the movie. I demanded it. [Laughs] “No,” he said. Asked if he had plans to appear in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” the actor said, “No, no, no, no. Not this movie. I don’t think so. If there was a universe, they obviously threw that idea out the window before they contacted me, so no.”
The actor joins director James Watkins and co-star Mackenzie Davis to promote his latest horror film, “Speak No Evil,” a remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name. The horror film follows an American couple and their daughter’s struggle to survive when a British family’s idyllic country vacation turns into a nightmarish hellscape.
McAvoy, who is no stranger to horror movies, having starred in M. Night Shyamalan's “Split” and “Glass,” said the film was “weird” and filled with “a lot of laughs” and “a lot of tension.”
“What is it [Watkins] “What he does brilliantly is a very long hour and a half of comedy and scary stuff, but really, it's just tension, tension, tension, tension, and over the last 20 minutes when the action starts, it all just explodes.”
When asked what was on his watch list at the end of the session, McAvoy said: diverse “Deadpool & Wolverine” is at the top of his list: “I definitely have to see ‘Deadpool & Wolverine.’”
