James Marsden’s Having Enjoyable as Cyclops ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

After The Marvels and Deadpool & Wolverine laid the groundwork for extra Fox X-Males to return, Avengers: Doomsday goes all in by bringing again a number of non-Wolverine (or Professor X) characters from the original films. Amongst them is James Marsden, who performed Cyclops in that preliminary trilogy and didn’t actually get to do a lot in them.

Chatting with Vanity Fair, the actor recalled “20 years of listening to individuals say, ‘When are you coming again? When are you coming again? Are you coming again?’ However I’m useless, or perhaps not.” Regardless of “getting a bit lengthy within the tooth to placed on the superhero costume,” he known as getting it “an actual blast” to place the shades on once more for Doomsday.  Marsden was one of many first X-actors to bow out of the franchise, having been killed off early into X-Males: The Final Stand after he booked a task in Superman Returns. The final time he confirmed up because the all the time proper mutant was a brief cameo on the finish of Days of Future Previous in a brand new timeline, which appeared on the time to shut the guide on “the firrst actual occasion challenge I used to be ever part of, and a really beloved character.”

“To step again into that function was fairly particular,” he continued, “and it’s been a pleasant little homecoming to a task that basically put me on the map.” Different returning X-actors for Doomsday embrace Alan Cumming as Nightcralwer, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, and Ian McKellen as Magneto. Two present, notable absences are Famke Janssen’s Jean Gray and Halle Berry’s Storm.

With how a lot enjoyable X-Males ’97 had rehabilitating Cyclops into a really cool (and really flawed) hero, hopefully Marsden will get to indicate out when Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters on December 18, 2026.

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