{"id":27840,"date":"2014-12-02T17:15:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T01:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=27840"},"modified":"2014-12-30T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T01:41:45","slug":"add-rebecca-romijn-to-the-list-of-x-men-actors-who-want-to-reprise-their-iconic-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=27840","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Romijn wants to reprise her Mystique role."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MutantsOnTheRun.jpg?resize=640%2C419&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CLH1.CA.0e.0414.X220.0.1\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The original cast has made it pretty well known that they&#8217;d be interested in reprising their roles in future films beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-days-of-future-past\/\">X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST<\/a>. Now we can add &#8216;Mystique&#8217; actress, <strong>Rebecca Romijn<\/strong> to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d do it absolutely,&#8221; Romijn told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hngn.com\/articles\/50550\/20141124\/x-men-star-rebecca-romijn-mystique-character-role-jennifer-lawrence-apocalypse-first-class-cameo-marvel.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Headlines &amp; Global News<\/a> about returning to the villainous role she made famous. &#8220;But they have their Mystique right now [with <strong>Jennifer Lawrence<\/strong>] and she&#8217;s unbelievable. I&#8217;m thrilled to share the role with her. She&#8217;s as cool as can be, and a great actress and an Academy Award winner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence, along with <strong>James McAvoy<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Fassbender<\/strong> have contracts that are fulfilled after completing <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-apocalypse\/\">APOCALYPSE<\/a>, but with younger versions of Jean Grey and Cyclops coming soon, there would seem to be more plans for the altered (past) timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Can both time periods co-exist on-screen?<\/p>\n<h1>Past quotes from original cast:<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hugh Jackman:<\/strong> &#8220;Because after seeing [DOFP], the whole thing feels fresher to me than ever. And during this movie\u2026 it\u2019s kind of like a clean slate, so who knows where it\u2019s going to go. As long as I have the passion for it and the fans will have me.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/17\/hugh-jackman-wants-to-do-another-x-men-movie\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Halle Berry:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s a character that I love and fans really love the whole series, they really love Storm, and it\u2019s like family. It\u2019s fun to get back together with Hugh [Jackman] and everybody\u2026it\u2019s good fun.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/the-tonight-show\" target=\"_blank\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Patrick Stewart:<\/strong> \u201cThere might be something else. A little bird has whispered that there might be something X-Men related.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CCcQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mtv.com%2Fnews%2F1726428%2Fpatrick-stewart-x-men-days-of-future-past%2F&amp;ei=xoR-VJ2fHJGGigKQiYHoDg&amp;usg=AFQjCNF431irSwgfULkFnZWgQfoLtYgdWg&amp;sig2=kIOV7EMj4IJP76uRuCQuQg&amp;bvm=bv.80642063,d.cGE\" target=\"_blank\">MTV<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Shawn Ashmore:<\/strong> &#8220;I think there\u2019s such a great history from the source material, there\u2019s so many stories left to be told. The movie did well and the audience is there, so we\u2019ll have to see. I would love to play the character again, but we\u2019ll see.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/videos\/2014\/10\/12\/x-men-shawn-ashmore-and-kevin-bacon-on-returning-to-the-movies-nycc-2014\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ellen Page:<\/strong> &#8220;Kitty Pryde\u2019s awesome. I\u2019m super grateful to be the actress who\u2019s gotten to be her, and you only desperately hope that the true fans who have a right to demand what they want and who have been passionate about these stories for a really long time, that you can pull it off for them. I would be so thrilled to play Kitty Pryde again. I really would.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/09\/ellen-page-on-touchy-feely-and-kitty-pryde.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vulture<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>James Marsden:<\/strong> \u201cIf I could go back and put on the glasses and suit again where we do a film to learn more about the character, that\u2019s the one I would pick. He\u2019s ripe for that.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/movies\/117228_James_Marsden_Talks_Straw_Dogs_career\/\" target=\"_blank\">ET<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Famke Janssen:<\/strong> \u201cIt would be very surreal. I would be honored to be a part of any of these X-MEN movies. It would be great.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/splashpage.mtv.com\/2013\/01\/07\/famke-janssen-wolverine-cameo-x-men\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTV<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kelsey Grammer:<\/strong> \u201cI would love to do another X-Men. I loved playing Beast! I call him the blue guy and it was just a joy for me to be involved in that franchise.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2014\/06\/23\/x-men-kelsey-grammer-wants-to-reprise-beast-for-bryan-singer-plus-thoughts-on-brett-ratner\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Anna Paquin:<\/strong> \u201cAs much as I loved doing those films I was kind of like, \u2018OK, so when do I get to beat someone up? When do I get to steal some powers? So I\u2019m just putting that out there. More action please, for next time.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2009\/06\/02\/paquin-talks-x-men-future\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Alan Cumming:<\/strong> &#8220;I really like [X2] and everyone really responded to Nightcrawler and enough time has elapsed that I would like to go back to it.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=97825\" target=\"_blank\">Coming Soon<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original cast has made it pretty well known that they&#8217;d be interested in reprising&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28023,"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-27840","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\/2014\/12\/myst-feat.jpg?fit=750%2C380&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27840","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=27840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}