{"id":1748,"date":"2011-01-26T18:41:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2011-01-26T18:41:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:41:55","slug":"james-mcavoy-says-being-a-telepath-is-not-so-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"James McAvoy says playing a telepath is not so physical."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/splashpage.mtv.com\/2011\/01\/26\/x-men-first-class-james-mcavoy-patrick-stewart-professor-x\/\">Splash Page<\/a> spoke with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS star <strong>James McAvoy<\/strong> about his portrayal of Charles Xavier, meeting Patrick Stewart, and the limitations of playing a telepath on screen.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">[vodpod id=Video.5436688&amp;w=425&amp;h=350&amp;fv=configParams%3Dvid%253D616673%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A616673]<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We\u2019re doing a lot of the opposite, so by the time the movie ends or a sequel might end, you find that he has come toward who he is in those other movies, but he\u2019s got to be a very different person. He\u2019s definitely on the path to becoming Chuck Xavier.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McAvoy says he was a bit jealous of his castmates due to his character being a telepath which didn&#8217;t require much physical work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Everybody else is hanging off wires, back flipping off the walls and stuff, and I\u2019m [places hand on temple, looking into the distance] I\u2019m so satisfied right now. I\u2019m so fulfilled.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Splash Page spoke with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS star James McAvoy about his portrayal of Charles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,5,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-video","category-x-men-first-class"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}