Lana Condor on her exciting debut role as Jubilee in X-MEN: APOCALYPSE.

Lana Condor spoke with Anthem Magazine in-depth about her journey to being cast as Jubilee in X-MEN: APOCALYPSE.

“[The casting agents] called me and said they sent my tape to [director] Bryan Singer,” she revealed about her audition. “He was in Montreal so I never even met him and I was cast the next day. [Bryan and I] actually talked about this later on. He told me I was the first person he ever cast off of tape, so that was pretty cool.”

In her first film role, Condor said being on the Montreal set was a totally brand new experience. “I’d never been on a set before,” she gushed. “I didn’t even know I had a trailer, so that was already shocking to me.”

“The whole entire time: ‘Is this real? I’m dreaming,'” she says of arriving on set. “Me, Sophie [Turner], Tye [Sheridan], and Kodi [Smit-McPhee] were all working the first day. They rented out half a huge mall in Montreal for the shoot, so half of it was the X-Men set and the other half was a regular, functioning mall. I walked in and there were hundreds of extras milling around, and it was transformed into the ’80s. I was like, ‘Oh my god! This is my first day of work?’ I remember being really serious that day, too, and Bryan was like, ‘Yo! Laugh! This is fun!’ I would sit outside my trailer sometimes and Jennifer [Lawrence] would walk by me, as Mystique in her blue, like, ‘What’s up, Lana?’ It’s crazy because she’s in blue, Kodi’s in blue, and Nic’s [Hoult] in blue. Not only are these actors I totally look up to, but it’s also them in their characters, just having lunch with you. It was just crazy.”

The questions Condor continuously gets from devoted X-Men fans are if Jubilee will finally use her powers and what length will her role be. The character only appeared as a cameo in the original trilogy by actresses Katrina Florece and Kea Wong, respectively.

“I’m super sensitive about questions like that because I don’t exactly know what I’m allowed to say. But yes, she does use her powers. It’s just that I can’t say why or anything because, you know, that’s the movie. I get those questions all the time.”

On her screentime, she said “There are like the 17 of us in the ensemble, right? Six of those are the new, younger mutants, which includes Jubilee. I stick together with Jean, Scott, and Nightcrawler. Almost all of my scenes are with them. They’re such a prominent part of the film because we’re watching them grow up and learn how to develop their powers and use them. I can say that Jubilee is in it throughout the entire film. Hopefully. Unless they cut me. [Laughs] I would also say that if there were to be another film, I would hope that Jubilee would get an even bigger character arc.”

You can read PLENTY more from her interview over at Anthem .

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