James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender answer the X-Perts!

You asked, they answered! The official X-Men Movies Facebook has posted responses from X-MEN: FIRST CLASS stars James McAvoy and Charles Xavier. Check out a preview below, and head on over here to read in full!

In this film will we see Charles Xavier also as a teacher or is he just a mutant discovering and controlling his power?

James McAvoy: He’s a mixture of both. Xavier is probably the least mutant-like mutant of the lot of them. But the thing about X-Men is that everybody’s a misfit. They’ve always been outsiders, they’ve always been on the run, they’ve always been bullied and scared of what they are; and scared they can’t control whatever power they have. But Professor X never really feels that way. Professor X has always been the guy who is proud of being a mutant, and he knows he is probably the most powerful of them all. Charles is much more comfortable with it and embraces that Professor role. So while we do see him developing his powers and learning to harness them, he’s pretty much come to terms with his powers when we meet him. But we also see him as a teacher because he finds that it is his passion. He wants to not only be at the forefront of this emerging part of society, but he also wants to help shape it.

What was it like trying to simulate Charles Xavier’s power of telepathy as an actor?

James McAvoy: Charles is one of the most powerful mutants in the world, if not the most powerful. So I tried to make it look like it was really easy and more like it was just an extension of Charles himself. But when he’s really struggling with the power, the execution of his mental ability becomes a little bit more physical due to the strain he is enduring in harnessing the strength of his power. At those points it ends up being expressed physically.

Charles Xavier/Professor X and Magneto were once like brothers. Do we get to see what made their friendship falls apart and what made that happen?

James McAvoy: Yes, we get to see why they want to be friends. You see the moment they meet. You don’t just start the film and they’re buddies. Which I liked. But we do also get to see what makes it all fall apart. We get to see something quite tragic because it’s not a small thing that makes it fall apart, but it’s only one element in their relationship. Everything else in their relationship is pretty solid and pretty positive. So it’s quite tragic that they can’t put their differences aside about how to move forward as a new species. Their approaches are so fundamentally different that they can’t reconcile them and it has tragic consequences.

After playing Magneto, do you feel some type of connection with the character?

Michael Fassbender: I absolutely feel a connection. I think the interesting thing about Magneto is he does magnify the human race’s failure in trying to co-exist and then magnifies the destructiveness. Even though his methods are extreme, his arguments actually are true and make sense.

Are we going to see Erik/Magneto as a possible team leader like Cyclops or more of an outcast trying to fit in?

Michael Fassbender: I think all of the mutants are outcasts trying to fit in, but within his own peers, I think he’s a definite leader. There’s no doubt about that. I think any megalomaniac that manages to get an army behind him the way he does has to be a good leader. I think he’s charismatic, I think he’s intelligent and I think he’s very forceful. That’s a pretty influential combination.

Will Erik have a love interest?

Michael Fassbender: Not really. I think there are signs of seeds to be sown later, but I think when we meet Erik in this film, his life is more about revenge than anything else. In this film, he’s a lone wolf and he’s on a very specific mission and he’s Machiavellian in his approach to whatever ends justify the means.

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