{"id":2076,"date":"2011-02-06T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2011-02-06T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T05:07:15","slug":"what-the-f-banshee-not-irish-in-x-men-first-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=2076","title":{"rendered":"What the&#8230;.Banshee NOT Irish in X-Men: First Class?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of <em>Empire Magazine<\/em> has an article on X-MEN: FIRST CLASS and inside are a few details on the characters in the film. One bit on the character of Banshee has me doing the facepalm. Apparently he&#8217;s American in this film.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Transcribed via <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbookmovie.com\/fansites\/rorschachsrants\/news\/?a=29530\">Comic Book Movies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>On Caleb landry Jones as Banshee\/Sean Cassidy&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Irishman with a sonic scream in the comics, Jones&#8217; Cassidy is a young American here, the big lungs remain intact&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique&#8230;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Magneto&#8217;s future accomplice starts off as Charles&#8217; BFF, shapeshifting into human form. &#8220;This is before her Rebecca Romijn mutant and proud days&#8221; laughs Lawrence <\/p>\n<p><strong>Rose Byrne as Dr Moira MacTaggert&#8230;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The only human in the group, Moira is the team&#8217;s link with the CIA. &#8220;I love the idea of it being in the 60s&#8221; says Byrne. &#8220;It gives it a twinkle in the eye&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicholas Hoult as Beast\/Hank McCoy&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s resident boffin, before his mutation later in the film as the big, blue bouncing Beast.&#8221;He&#8217;s very urbane and witty&#8221; says Hoult <\/p>\n<p><strong>James McAvoy as Charles Xavier&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s not a monk&#8221; says McAvoy, &#8220;He enjoys a drink, he&#8217;s a sex pest! But you start to see his ego break down.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the magazine is correct and Banshee&#8217;s American, does the same go for Moira MacTaggert who&#8217;s Scottish in the comics and (thankfully) had an accent in X3? The X-Men films have been a bit wobbly in keeping their character accents in check, so we&#8217;ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of Empire Magazine has an article on X-MEN: FIRST CLASS and inside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2085,"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":[15,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","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\/2076","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=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}