Nicholas Hoult on Oscar Isaac’s villainous turn in X-MEN: APOCALYPSE and 1983 fashion.

‘Beast’ actor Nicholas Hoult spoke with IGN about X-MEN: APOCALYPSE and the “bad ass” performance by Oscar Isaac as the film’s title villain.

“I think [this film] is just going to be pretty huge in many ways,” he said. “It’s set in the ‘80s. Introducing younger versions of Cyclops and Jean Grey and Storm and those characters so you get a bit of a back story to those guys. And then Apocalypse – Oscar Isaac – turns up and is a bad-ass and it all goes quite extreme.”

Though he doesn’t share much, if any, one-on-one time with Apocalypse, Hoult says Isaac brought an “intensity” to his role as an ancient mutant hellbent on culling the Earth of the weak.

“To be honest with you, the times we were acting in the same scene were often quite distant,” he continued. “So I could sense the presence of him – and he’s certainly got a lot of presence, in life – he’s a really fun guy to be around. And that character’s a tricky one to play, you know, essentially a mutant from an era long ago, awoken in this modern day, very confused about what’s been going on around him and decides to do something about it. He certainly brings an intensity to it, in a great way.”

Set in 1983, Hoult described Beast’s style of clothing.

“80s gear? You know what I felt like a bit of a kid wearing my Dad’s suits and stuff, because it’s very baggy the 80s style. Big pants and shoulder pads. I’d try them on in the costume fittings and I’d look ridiculous. I’d look like a three-year-old wearing my Dad’s clothes, but that’s what it was at the time.”

‘Apocalypse’ comes to theaters on May 27, 2016.