{"id":24538,"date":"2014-05-01T19:13:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T03:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=24538"},"modified":"2014-05-01T19:16:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T03:16:44","slug":"james-mcavoy-x-men-days-of-future-past-a-beautiful-device-for-reflection-and-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=24538","title":{"rendered":"James McAvoy: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST is a beautiful device for reflection and comparison."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24059\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?attachment_id=24059\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/TheXMen.jpg?fit=1280%2C856&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,856\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"TheXMen\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/TheXMen.jpg?fit=640%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/TheXMen.jpg?resize=640%2C428&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"TheXMen\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/TheXMen.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/TheXMen.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/TheXMen.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-days-of-future-past\/\">X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST<\/a> star <strong>James McAvoy<\/strong> tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfx.co.uk\/2014\/04\/30\/james-mcavoy-talks-time-travel-in-x-men-days-of-future-past\/\" target=\"_blank\">SFX Magazine<\/a> that there was a lot of pressure playing the role of Professor Xavier after the iconic portrayal by Sir <strong>Patrick Stewart<\/strong>. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit of a barometer for you as an actor, taking on that part, banging it out to somebody else who\u2019s done your job for 14 years,\u201d he says. \u201cI never thought for a minute when I stepped into Charles\u2019 shoes that I would ever have to work with Patrick, playing the same character. It\u2019s hilarious, man. It was a lot of pressure, but it was good. You just have to hit it hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When McAvoy first learned of the plot for DOFP, he was concerned that maybe Fox was backtracking and unhappy with the way <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-first-class\/\">FIRST CLASS<\/a> turned out. \u201cMy team, we thought we were redoing it. We thought we were rebooting it. And then we find out that the previous cast are coming in and joining us. Fuck \u2013 did we mess up? Did we not do a good film? Do you not like us? But then you read the script and you realize that it\u2019s a beautiful device and a beautiful opportunity to do not just a mash-up of characters, which seems to be quite in vogue at the moment, but one that involves reflection and comparison.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fans will get to see a darker and depressed version of Xavier this time out, and McAvoy says that&#8217;s all for good reason. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to go back in time and show them at an earlier stage in their lives there\u2019s no point in doing it if they\u2019re just going to be the same,\u201d McAvoy explains. \u201cThe point of it is that you\u2019re showing the audience how people grow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST star James McAvoy tells SFX Magazine that there was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24059,"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":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-x-men-days-of-future-past"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/TheXMen.jpg?fit=1280%2C856&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538","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=24538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}