I Knew There Was a Reason I Love this Guy...
James McAvoy is a classy man
A selection of his awesome quotes from this:
"And, we filmed it half an hour from my front door, which never happens as an actor. It'd be good if that became the headline of any interview I do - 'It was simply through vicinity that I decided to do this film'." ...
McAvoy insisted on some script tinkering, adamant that his Xavier must be a much looser character than the wise old (and bald) Professor played by Patrick Stewart in the previous X-Men films.
"The first scene was always written with him chatting up a young student," McAvoy explains. "When I first met Matthew I said, 'Listen, can we really take that and run with it, can we make him a rubbish flirt?' He's gotta become the wise, sage leader of this band and all that, yes, of course, but if you don't give him something else he might as well just be played by Patrick Stewart."
(For the record, McAvoy swears those scenes where Xavier is a "rubbish flirt" didn't require too much acting. "I am an absolutely rubbish, rubbish, rubbish flirt. But I enjoy playing people who think they're good at flirting but they're not," he laughs.) ...
And the Best:
"When we met up to talk about doing this, we both agreed there's no point in making these big, silly pieces of fun unless you can enjoy it, too," McAvoy says.
"As hard as it was at times - because these things are very hard to make, they are a storm happening all around you every day for six months - we made a pact to try to make each other laugh as much as possible."
In a fab montage, the pair go on a recruiting drive, in which they perch on a strip-club bed.
"That scene got exceptionally silly at one point," says McAvoy. "I don't know if I'm even allowed to tell you what originally happened. But it got pretty f---in' kinky. I'm not joking."
Was the dashing duo's bromance, uh, consummated?
"Unfortunately no. But there was a little bit of cross-dressing going on. That's all you need to know."
(For the record, McAvoy would have preferred it if Xavier and Magneto stayed together. Like, really together. "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that him and Magneto don't, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends.")
A selection of his awesome quotes from this:
"And, we filmed it half an hour from my front door, which never happens as an actor. It'd be good if that became the headline of any interview I do - 'It was simply through vicinity that I decided to do this film'." ...
McAvoy insisted on some script tinkering, adamant that his Xavier must be a much looser character than the wise old (and bald) Professor played by Patrick Stewart in the previous X-Men films.
"The first scene was always written with him chatting up a young student," McAvoy explains. "When I first met Matthew I said, 'Listen, can we really take that and run with it, can we make him a rubbish flirt?' He's gotta become the wise, sage leader of this band and all that, yes, of course, but if you don't give him something else he might as well just be played by Patrick Stewart."
(For the record, McAvoy swears those scenes where Xavier is a "rubbish flirt" didn't require too much acting. "I am an absolutely rubbish, rubbish, rubbish flirt. But I enjoy playing people who think they're good at flirting but they're not," he laughs.) ...
And the Best:
"When we met up to talk about doing this, we both agreed there's no point in making these big, silly pieces of fun unless you can enjoy it, too," McAvoy says.
"As hard as it was at times - because these things are very hard to make, they are a storm happening all around you every day for six months - we made a pact to try to make each other laugh as much as possible."
In a fab montage, the pair go on a recruiting drive, in which they perch on a strip-club bed.
"That scene got exceptionally silly at one point," says McAvoy. "I don't know if I'm even allowed to tell you what originally happened. But it got pretty f---in' kinky. I'm not joking."
Was the dashing duo's bromance, uh, consummated?
"Unfortunately no. But there was a little bit of cross-dressing going on. That's all you need to know."
(For the record, McAvoy would have preferred it if Xavier and Magneto stayed together. Like, really together. "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that him and Magneto don't, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends.")