katikat | I love the way...

... Both Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy talk about their XMFC characters and their relationship. You can literally feel the fondness they have for each other, as actors and as the characters they portray. Link to the article.

Referencing the on-again, off-again friendship between McAvoy’s character, Charles Xavier, and Fassbender’s magnetic mutant in the Marvel Comics universe, Fassbender hinted that there’s always the possibility that they’ll be on the same side again. Although if their comic-book history is any indication, it could take another threat bigger than both of them to bring the former friends together.

“You know what’s interesting about Magneto and Professor X from the comic books as well, is there’s such a complexity to their relationship,” he explained. “It’s not just like clear-cut enemies; they’re best friends as well. In the comic books, even after they’ve had this sort of rift, Professor X asks Magneto to come back and look after the students at certain points.”

“I think there’s always that complexity in their relationship,” he said. “And we want to keep that alive as possible, because that’s I think a really interesting thing — the conflict there.”

It's so good to see both of them care so much about the integrity of Charles and Erik. They really want to explore them but not destroy what these two have, their friendship. And I just love they keep in sight that Charles and Erik are best friends, no matter what. Aww...

Also, it's great that the actors seem to have rather a lot of influence on what happens with their characters. That's why I hope that Matthew Vaughn returns as the director. These three - Matthew, James and Michael - seem to want exactly the same thing.