{"id":38622,"date":"2016-05-12T21:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T04:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=38622"},"modified":"2016-05-12T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T05:01:32","slug":"alexandra-shipp-ben-hardy-and-lana-condor-on-their-respective-xmen-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=38622","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Shipp, Ben Hardy and Lana Condor on their respective X-MEN roles."},"content":{"rendered":"

The young stars of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE<\/a>, Alexandra Shipp<\/strong> (Storm), Ben Hardy<\/strong> (Archangel) and Lana Condor<\/strong> (Jubilee) are featured in issue 23 of Fault Magazine<\/a>. All three actors talk about their roles in the film and how they’re preparing for wide exposure after the film’s release later this month.<\/p>\n

Below are brief excerpts – click the links for more quotes and pre-order the physical issue here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alexandra Shipp<\/h1>\n

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With \u00adX-Men, you\u2019re entering a universe that has a longstanding comic book fan base and a movie fan base, not to mention people who look up to you for taking on such an iconic black female superhero. Is that a lot to take in?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I do feel pressure because I want to give girls an accurate representation of a powerful black woman. Halle Berry did such a great job that I felt the fear of living up to her Storm. But I also felt the fear of living up to my own nerdy expectations. I\u2019m a fan of X-Men. I grew up on the cartoons. I grew up reading the comics. I wanted to do that right. I wasn\u2019t sleeping, just going over my Arabic and my Kenyan accent all the time. I wanted to make sure that girls who see this movie, young girls of any race or color, are excited by Storm and the way I portrayed her.”<\/p>\n

Read the full interview!<\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Hardy<\/h1>\n

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Angel has appeared in the X-men films before played by Ben Foster, were you able to draw much from his character to play his younger self?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As the timeline has completely warped and while I did watch X-Men: The Last Stand, I went into playing Angel as a brand new character altogether. I\u2019m drawing on Angel\u2019s character as dictated by the script and my own interpretation of him without worrying too much on past appearances.”<\/p>\n

Read the full interview!<\/a><\/p>\n

Lana Condor<\/h1>\n

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Jubilee often gets ranked as the mutant with the most useless powers but at the same time is VERY dear to the fans of X-men. Is it daunting to take the mantle of such a popular character? Comic book fans aren\u2019t very forgiving!<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Well\u2026 since you put it that way\u2026 now I won\u2019t be able to sleep at night! [laughs] but Yes. There has definitely been times where I really feel very nervous because I do not want to let her fans down. They are so devoted to her and I really admire that. It\u2019s amazing, I\u2019ve really learned that she means (as well as all the other characters) a lot to people. Maybe she reminds them of their childhood or was an escape for certain people. She certainly means a lot to me. So yes, the pressure to do her proper justice can be intimidating. But I also have to realise that some things are just not in my control.”<\/p>\n

Read the full interview!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The young stars of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, Alexandra Shipp (Storm), Ben Hardy (Archangel) and Lana Condor…<\/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":[15,26,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-photos","category-x-men-apocalypse"],"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\/38622","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=38622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}