James Marsden reveals what he was worried about…
He’s bought his eye on it.
James Marsden will reprise his “X-Men” function as Scott Summers / Cyclops in “Avengers Doomsday.”
“I was worried that I wasn’t going to be able to do any of this physical stuff, but it all worked out great. I still fit the costume!” Marsden, 52, told The Post.
Marsden, who was speaking to The Post while selling Season 2 of the AppleTV+ show “Your Friends & Neighbors,” initially performed Cyclops in 2000’s “X-Men,” when he was 26.
James Marsden in 2006’s “X-Men: The Last Stand.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
James Marsden in his video interview with the Post.
Along with the first “X-Men” film’s stars, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart, he also reprised the function in “X2: X Men United” (2003) and “X Men: The Last Stand” (2006).
About filming “Avengers: Doomsday,” Marsden told The Post that it was “great to see my old friends again, and to reunite with Patrick and Ian and Rebecca,” referring to Stewart, McKellen, and Rebecca Romijn.
“For the longest time, I didn’t think it was going to happen,” Marsden told The Post. “I just thought, ‘okay, well, that’s kind of done…they don’t want the fifty year-old version of me.’”
Ian McKellen in 2006’s “X-Men: The Last Stand.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
James Marsden in 2003’s “X Men 2.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
James Marsden at the “Your Friends and Neighbors” Season 2 Premiere at The New York Historical Society in New York on March 30. Johns PKI / SplashNews.com
His considerations about his age have been alleviated during filming, when he noticed that McKellen, 86, was “pushing his stunt double aside going, ‘let me try!’”
The “Paradise” actor was tight-lipped about the plot but said, “It’s going to be a lot of fun seeing all these worlds come together.”
With the exception of Jackman’s Wolverine, who appeared in the 2024 hit “Deadpool & Wolverine,” these X-Men characters haven’t been in the bigger Marvel world. But the “Avengers: Doomsday” trailer revealed that a number of of them shall be featured in the film.
They’ll seem alongside beforehand announced “Doomsday” stars such as Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans.
“Doomsday” would be the thirty ninth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a sequel to 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”
“Avengers: Doomsday” premieres Dec. 18, 2026.
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