![]() ![]() Olivia, how do you feel about fan expectations, especially considering you used to cover Comic-Con when you worked on Attack of the Show ? ( laughs) So you could say, my delivery of Magneto is pretty inconsistent. And then, this one, I've just decided to do a kind of hybrid of both of them. But in the second one, Ian McKellan was going to be in it, so then I went off and studied Ian McKellan's accent. I want you to do your own accent.” So we did that. But when we did First Class, Matthew was saying to me, “I don't want you to do his accent. And with Ian McKellan, you know, I was a big fan of his work. I did take lots of images of Magneto and have them around my trailer, just to get an idea about how I would commit to that once I'm in the cape and the full outfit. And I did reference some stuff from the comic books, definitely at the beginning when I was introduced to this world, because I was not a comic book fan. People, they save up their money all year to come here, from Australia, Asia, wherever. Obviously, I respect that people are very passionate about it. No, no, to answer your question properly, I commit to it. MF: I just don't like to face up to reality or anything. Until I had to fucking pay attention to him in the last one, because he was going to be in it with me. Michael, you had another actor, Ian McKellan, who played the older version of the character before you. OM: I mean, that's completely against what's expected. OI: Yeah! You go against what's expected! OM: Is that why you're doing a Jamaican accent? ( Laughter) It doesn't work, I don't think, in this medium. If you look at Apocalypse, if you actually were to do or speak in the way that it seems like he should, it would probably be laughable. ![]() To a certain extent, we are embodying certain things that are kind of mythical. And sometimes, what's fun to do is play against what people would expect, or what people would want you to do, because it is a different medium. So I feel like since I'm getting the shot to do it, then I can just follow my own discretion because of that. I was a huge fan, particularly of Apocalypse, since I was a kid. OI: Other than making you self-conscious about what you're doing. Basically, what can you do with it? Do you know what I mean? And the fans of them often have very strong opinions about how those characters should be represented - that's part of what Comic-Con is all about. So, you all are playing characters that have been portrayed in comic books and other media for decades. I had to do, like, six hours of training every day. OM: All the guys just kind of knew how to use a sword in some way, and then they threw me into training because of the obvious. OM: Yeah, I didn't know how to do sword work before… Olivia Munn: Well, I hashtagged Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac. Michael Fassbender: ( To Munn) Are you promoting yourself on Instagram separately? Aaron - I don't think he's in the movie. Olivia, just before Comic-Con, you posted a video to Instagram of you practicing your swordplay for Apocalypse with your boyfriend Aaron Rodgers in the background… In the comics, Apocalypse employs four horsemen to do his bidding, and - as revealed in the X-Men: Apocalypse panel at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend - in the movie, those horsemen include a young Storm ( Alexandra Shipp) and Angel (Ben Hardy), the mutably villainous Magneto ( Michael Fassbender), and a brand-new character to the film franchise, Psylocke ( Olivia Munn).īefore their panel at Comic-Con, BuzzFeed News sat down with Isaac, Fassbender, and Munn to talk about managing the massive fan expectations that come with taking on such an enormous storyline - and the importance of making sure their characters translate onto the screen as recognizable people, and not over-the-top gods. Set in 1983, 10 years after the events of 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse tracks the resurrection of the world’s first mutant, the ominously named Apocalypse ( Oscar Isaac), an ancient being who is so enormously powerful that he basically cannot be killed.
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