X-Men: Days of Future Past unites the cast of First Class and the original X-Men trilogy.
Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen) send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to 1973 to change the past. Logan will confront a very different Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) in order to reshape the destiny of the mutant race.
If First Class was Erik’s transition to Magneto – Days of Future Past is about the transformation of the Professor. As you’ve seen in the trailer – the older Charles pleads for his younger self to “hope again.”
McAvoy talks about what’s ahead for Charles in a new interview with Collider:
“It’s a movie about all of us, about all the guys in the X-Men, but I suppose the person with the biggest journey is arguably me. Because I change more than anybody by the end of the film compared to the beginning of the film. I wanted to make Charles quite extreme, relative to who he has always been before. When I first took over the part, I was only able to do that to a certain extent, because the film is about Michael’s journey, really. As much as I had a great part and I helped facilitate that – it was like a buddy movie and stuff, I had nice stuff to play – it was ultimately his narrative. In this one, it feels a little different in that I can go further with the extremity of it. I can go further with the extremity from what Patrick did, but also from what I did in the last movie, too. So you’ll find him very different. Not just because he’s got long hair, but because of what he is and how shaky his soul is. That’s really the key to him in this one, that his power, which has always been seen as his psychic ability or great intelligence or whatever, really what I think it is empathy. That’s his greatest power. But he’s lost the ability to be able to empathize with other people, because it’s too painful for him. Why? Because he’s been given all of his own pain to deal with, by Erik and by, as we said, Raven as well. It’s not just the loss of Erik. It has a lot to do with Erik, a lot to do with his relationship with Erik and their love for each other, but it’s also equally as much to do with his love for Raven, and the fact that he was sort of abandoned at the end of the last movie by both of them. Not just abandoned, but horribly injured.”
For the entire interview here’s the Collider link.
X-Men: Days of Future Past arrives in May.
By Editor