{"id":45095,"date":"2017-07-29T11:51:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T18:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=45095"},"modified":"2017-07-29T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T19:08:14","slug":"summer-fontana-cast-as-younger-jean-grey-in-x-men-dark-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=45095","title":{"rendered":"Summer Fontana seemingly cast as young(er) Jean Grey in X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"45096\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?attachment_id=45096\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fontana.jpg?fit=795%2C507&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"795,507\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"fontana\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fontana.jpg?fit=640%2C408&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fontana.jpg?resize=640%2C408&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fontana.jpg?w=795&amp;ssl=1 795w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fontana.jpg?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fontana.jpg?resize=768%2C490&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fontana.jpg?resize=110%2C70&amp;ssl=1 110w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fontana.jpg?resize=220%2C140&amp;ssl=1 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Originals&#8221; actress <strong>Summer Fontana<\/strong> has been cast as young <strong>Jean Grey<\/strong> in director Simon Kinberg&#8217;s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/darkphoenix\">X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX<\/a> saga.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, we <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/23\/x-men-dark-phoenix-casting-4-5-year-old-as-young-jean-grey-for\/\">mentioned<\/a> how Kenyon Wells casting agency was seeking a &#8220;small 4-5 year old girl with red hair&#8221; for filming a non-speaking role earlier this month. Fontana is 8 years old. The actress they were seeking was described as having &#8220;self confidence, general awareness and the ability to listen, concentrate and focus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7443988\/?ref_=m_ttfcd_cl12\" target=\"_blank\">IMDB<\/a> confirmed her casting and Fontana herself tweeted that she spent some time in Montreal, the site of production for the next X-Men film.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Au revoir Montreal! Merci beau coup por l&#39;excellent moment! \ud83d\ude18XOXO <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HIKu9H1fnr\">pic.twitter.com\/HIKu9H1fnr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Summer Fontana (@SummerFontana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SummerFontana\/status\/888787827340738561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not sure if Fontanna actually filmed her scene yet or was just in the city for makeup\/costume tests, as the casting notice said filming would take place on August 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>This is likely for a flashback, presumably showing when Jean\u2019s powers first manifested.<\/p>\n<p>There are multiple routes they can take for this moment: When Sophie Turner auditioned for the role in <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-apocalypse\/\">X-MEN: APOCALYPSE<\/a>, her <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/184438759\" target=\"_blank\">dialogue<\/a> involved her mentioning how she (at 10 years old) felt her mother&#8217;s pain when she died in a car crash. In the comics, Jean&#8217;s powers activated after her childhood friend <a href=\"https:\/\/marvel.wikia.com\/wiki\/Annie_Richardson_(Earth-616)\" target=\"_blank\">Annie<\/a> died from being hit by a car. Jean also has an older sister named <a href=\"https:\/\/comicvine.gamespot.com\/sara-grey-bailey\/4005-30510\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sara<\/a> that was absorbed by a cybernetic species known as the Phalanx.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks Martin, X-Men Saga and JenLawFilms for the heads up!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Originals&#8221; actress Summer Fontana has been cast as young Jean Grey in director Simon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"Summer Fontana cast as young(er) Jean Grey in X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX.","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":[60,74,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casting","category-untitled-2018-film","category-rumors"],"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\/2017\/07\/fontana.jpg?fit=795%2C507&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45095","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=45095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}