X-Men: First Class (June 3)
First Class also explores how Xavier becomes a peaceful revolutionary, leading a worldwide movement of mutants. It's clear that he hasn't yet grown into the wise old man Stewart portrayed. ''In [the other X-Men] movies, he's very selfless and egoless and sexless. He's like the personification of good,'' McAvoy says. ''We just wanted to go the opposite way. We couldn't make him a bad guy, but we've made him sort of amoral.'' In the film, set in the early 1960s, he's a little more reckless, dangerous, and, as the actor puts it, “definitely no longer sexless.” He's still best friends with future nemesis Magneto (Jane Eyre's Michael Fassbender), and he helps defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis. ''He's not the holistic world healer he will become,'' McAvoy says. ''X-Men is always about the mutant who's uncomfortable in his own skin. He's just a little too pleased with who he is.'' —AB
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