X-Men star Patrick Stewart recently revealed in his new autobiography, Making It So: A Memoir, that he had no clue who Charles Xavier/Professor X was when he was first asked to play the X-Men leader back in 1997.”Who on earth is that, Lauren?,” Stewart recalled telling X-Men producer Lauren Donner after being approached to play powerful psychic mutant Charles Xavier. Even after she explained that he was the leader of the X-Men, Stewart was apparently still lost, writing, “This conversation made about as much sense to me as the one I’d had with Steve Dontanville all those years ago in which he asked me why Gene Roddenberry wanted to meet me. Charles Xavier? The X-Men? I hadn’t a bloody clue what was going on.”Stewart continued, “Lauren patiently explained that X-Men was to be a big-budget film based on a Marvel Comics superhero team. Charles Xavier was the creation of comic book legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. He is a telepath and paraplegic who exists in a world where mutants represent the next phase in human evolution, but face discrimination and bigotry because of their superhuman powers. He oversees an academy called the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters and a strike force of do-gooder fellow mutants called the X-Men. He is the guy who puts the X in X-Men.”RELATED: REPORT: Marvel Studios Will Begin Hearing Pitches for X-Men Reboot
X-Men star Patrick Stewart recently revealed in his new autobiography, Making It So: A Memoir, that he had no clue who Charles Xavier/Professor X was when he was first asked to play the X-Men leader back in 1997.
“Who on earth is that, Lauren?,” Stewart recalled telling X-Men producer Lauren Donner after being approached to play powerful psychic mutant Charles Xavier. Even after she explained that he was the leader of the X-Men, Stewart was apparently still lost, writing, “This conversation made about as much sense to me as the one I’d had with Steve Dontanville all those years ago in which he asked me why Gene Roddenberry wanted to meet me. Charles Xavier? The X-Men? I hadn’t a bloody clue what was going on.”
Stewart continued, “Lauren patiently explained that X-Men was to be a big-budget film based on a Marvel Comics superhero team. Charles Xavier was the creation of comic book legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. He is a telepath and paraplegic who exists in a world where mutants represent the next phase in human evolution, but face discrimination and bigotry because of their superhuman powers. He oversees an academy called the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters and a strike force of do-gooder fellow mutants called the X-Men. He is the guy who puts the X in X-Men.”
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