The actor plays Professor X's twin Cassandra Nova in Deadpool and Wolverine, and tells Yahoo UK how revisiting the X-Men stars' past work proved stressful.
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00:00You went back to look at Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy's take on Professor X,
00:05to kind of inform your portrayal of their twin, Cassandra.
00:08I wondered, you know, what was it like to follow in their footsteps
00:12and take on that role?
00:13I mean, a lot of pressure.
00:15I really questioned whether I should go back and look at it,
00:17because also it's that thing if you don't want to get too close to something,
00:20so you can't make your own version, but I did find it really helpful.
00:24I was just really curious, and when someone...
00:27Obviously, Cassandra has power through her.
00:29There's probably a word for it that I'm missing,
00:30but, like, gesture, finger, power.
00:33God.
00:34But when it's also so interior, when it's like telepathy and in your mind,
00:38how that has been portrayed before,
00:41because it's so much of an internal world and they do it so beautifully,
00:44so, yeah, I found that really interesting.