Lamar Johnson on DARK PHOENIX cameo and how things went in a “completely different direction.”

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, actor Lamar Johnson opened up about his blink and you miss it appearance in Simon Kinberg’s DARK PHOENIX film. A rising talent, Johnson was cast as Benjamin Hammil aka Match, a mutant with the power of pyrokinesis – the ability to manipulate molecules, causing them burst into flame.

“I was supposed to be one of the new students at Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, but the movie just took a completely different direction and that just didn’t happen,” he said. “Yeah, it really feels like a lifetime ago, truly. I think I did that in 2018, I believe. It was a lot of fun, though, being able to see the school and to see how they shoot the film. I got to meet Jennifer Lawrence and Alexandra Shipp and James McAvoy and the full cast. I was like a kid in a candy store, especially growing up watching X-Men and being a fan of the X-Men comics.”

You can catch Johnson in episode five of HBO’s gripping The Last of Us series.