Ellen Page reprises her role as Kitty Pryde in X-Men Days of Future Past.
Page played Kitty in X-Men The Last Stand under director Brett Ratner. What’s is like to return to the Children of the Atom with a new director (Bryan Singer.)
“That’s sort of the wonder and mystery of making a movie, you know? Maybe because the first one was so long ago, maybe because it was like an eight-year difference, but it didn’t feel like there needed to be an adjustment period. Bryan, I don’t know how he pulls off everything he does in a day, I really don’t! He is really great with actors and really wants the truth of the performance to exist, to sort of elevate that kind of a film, which I feel he did with the first two X-Men movies. He was sort of the first to take that kind of a spectacle of film and tell a deeply, deeply human story,” Page tells Vulture.
Joss Whedon is a huge fan of Kitty Pryde and has said she’s part of the inspiration for Buffy, The Vampire Slayer. Whedon wrote Astonishing X-Men, a comic book with Kitty as the focus. Vulture asked Page about Whedon’s hope to direct a Kitty Pryde solo movie.
“I have heard that, yeah! Well, I’m available! [Laughs.] I love that. Kitty Pryde’s awesome. I’m super grateful to be the actress who’s gotten to be her, and you only desperately hope that the true fans who have a right to demand what they want and who have been passionate about these stories for a really long time, that you can pull it off for them. I would be so thrilled to play Kitty Pryde again. I really would.”
X-Men: Days of Future Past opens May, 2014.
Page is in talks to star in Queen and Country according to Variety. The film is based on Greg Rucka’s comic book about British spy Tara Chace.
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