McAvoy: Xavier unrecognizable from Stewart’s version.

Red Carpet News caught up with X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST star James McAvoy at the Moet British Independent Awards, where the actor spoke about his next foray into playing Charles Xavier. He confirms that he’s indeed contracted for another film (no surprise), which is pretty much guaranteed to be 2016’s X-MEN: APOCALYPSE.

“I only heard about it this morning!” McAvoy said when asked about Bryan Singer’s recently announced film. “The personal pleasure for me in ‘First Class’ was presenting a Charles Xavier to the fans, but also a new audience, who’s very different from the Charles that you expected. But he was still very sort of ‘Everything’s going good!’ In the second movie I get to present another version of Charles Xavier who’s still very different from the Charles that used to exist, but he’s also remarkably different from the Charles in ‘First Class’ as well.

“What’s great is that even though it’s a sequel, even though it’s a franchise, I keep getting to reinvent Charles Xavier and that’s amazing,” he continues. “I’ve got to do it twice now, because the Charles in this film is unrecognizable from the Charles in the last film as well unrecognizable from the Charles played by Patrick Stewart, who I then get to face up to. That’s sort of theatrical almost, it’s like we’re playing a game with the audience saying ‘Look at the many faces of Charles-Patrick-Stewart-Xavier-McAvoy. It’s really good fun.”

Thanks to Comic Book Movie and Coming Soon for the heads up!