{"id":55496,"date":"2021-06-01T18:18:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T01:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=55496"},"modified":"2021-06-01T18:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T01:19:20","slug":"sam-richardson-compares-veep-character-to-beast-and-wants-to-play-role-in-the-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=55496","title":{"rendered":"Sam Richardson compares VEEP character to Beast and wants to play role in the MCU."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Veep<\/em> actor Sam Richardson told <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/tv\/columns\/friends-reunion-lady-gaga-ben-winston-direct-1234981982\/\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/strong> that he&#8217;d love a chance to play Dr. Henry McCoy aka BEAST in a future X-Men film: &#8220;I think Beast is like a big blue-haired Richard Splett,&#8221; he said of the character he appeared as for five seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Richard John Splett<\/strong>, Ph.D., VMD,  is the current\u00a0president of the United States in that show&#8217;s world. Prior to this, he served as the United States\u00a0Secretary of Agriculture from 2021 to 2025, the Governor of Iowa from 2020 to 2021, the mayor of Lurlene, Iowa, and the Chief of Staff to former President\u00a0Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Richardson probably saw the most similarities with his character and Beast from 2006&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-the-last-stand\/\">X-MEN: THE LAST STAND<\/a>, where McCoy served as the U.S. government&#8217;s Secretary of Mutant Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s no word on when casting will begin for Marvel Studios&#8217; future mutant flick. At 37 years old, Richardson could be the perfect age for the character, unless head Kevin Feige decides to go younger or older. Its anyone&#8217;s guess at this point what a future Disney-backed X-MEN will look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veep actor Sam Richardson told Variety that he&#8217;d love a chance to play Dr. Henry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42350,"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":"","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":[60,15,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casting","category-crew-talk","category-disney"],"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\/2011\/01\/X3-LoganBeastStorm.jpg?fit=1196%2C797&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55496","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=55496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}