Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will officially be reprising their roles as Professor X and Magneto in Bryan Singer's 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' with Singer himself anncoing the news himself on twitter:
Thrilled to announce @ianmckellen118 & @sirpatstew are joining the cast of #XMEN #DaysOfFuturePast #magneto #professorX More to come...
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) November 27, 2012
Speaking with the
The Huffington Post, Ian McKellen had this to say about playing the master of magnatism once again:
Bryan Singer announced that you're playing Magneto again. Is
that something you've been wanting to do? This will be your fourth movie
with Bryan Singer, did that help persuade you?
What a gas! I mean, Patrick Stewart and I have been have just been
playing "Waiting for Godot" throughout England and in the West End of
London. So, we've stayed in touch. We can't believe it [laughs]. I
thought these were Fassbender and McAvoy's parts, but -- no, no --
we're back. We'll give them a run for their money. I mean, I haven't
read the script, so I don't know how much we've got to do. But, to be
back in that world, and for Bryan to be doing it -- with all the success
he's had in the meantime -- it's wonderful. Wonderful.
What did you think of Michael Fassbender as Magneto in "X-Men: First Class"?
Yeah! I thought he was exactly that: first class. Excellent.
You never thought, Hey, I've got my eye on you. That's my part.
[Laughs] No. No. I thought he was better than me. But, we weren't quite
playing the same character because he was so much younger than me. And
the scope of Magneto, one day a Jewish actor will play it. Clearly, he's
Jewish. We first meet him in at Auschwitz and there's scope for all
sorts of people to pay Magneto. But, I was just the lucky guy who got to
play him first.
