Michael Fassbender reveals X-Men: First Class spoilers.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS actor Michael Fassbender (Erik/Magneto) spoke with IGN Movies about the film and revealed some plot spoilers. Before we get to that, Fassbender says his character thinks Charles Xavier finding mutants is a good thing, but that his character eventually starts wanting a “team” for different reasons.

“I think he’s also very happy to find out that there are other mutants out there. Again, the cogs are working in the back of his head. Like ‘I do eventually need to get my army together. There are other mutants that can help me now.’ Because I think his idea changes from what starts off as being a mission to get one man into a bigger plan to actually rid the earth of human beings and take over.”

Spoilers follow…

“At the start of the movie we get introduced to [Erik] as a boy, who is played by Bill Milner, who is a fantastic actor.” says Fassbender. “I’ve watched a little bit of what he did and it’s great. So you start in the concentration camps with him and then it sort of jump-cuts to 20 years later. It’s the early 1960s and Erik is a grown man. And he’s on a quest to get Sebastian Shaw.”

He continues, “Shaw had him in these concentration camps and as we know, the Nazis were doing lots of experimentation – all sorts of things, like measuring skull and brain size and running experiments on human beings. So Shaw is trying to unleash this power in him – he’s recognized that he can manipulate metal and so we catch up with Erik on a quest to hunt him down.”

On his favorite scenes in the film, Fassbeder says “I don’t want to give too much of the story away. There were two scenes. One’s fairly early in the film, when you are introduced to him and he’s on this sort of hunt. He’s on a trail blaze of Nazi killing. He’s trying to tighten the screws to pinpoint where Shaw is.”