Oh, James McAvoy ...
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andrasteI am so glad you watched X-Men: The Animated Series as a teenager. It totally explains your Xavier/Magneto 'shipping.
Here is what he has to say in this interview about filming with Michael Fassbender:
"As hard as it was at times - because these things are very hard to make, they are a storm happening all around you every day for six months - we made a pact to try to make each other laugh as much as possible."
In a fab montage, the pair go on a recruiting drive, in which they perch on a strip-club bed.
"That scene got exceptionally silly at one point," says McAvoy. "I don't know if I'm even allowed to tell you what originally happened. But it got pretty f---in' kinky. I'm not joking."
Was the dashing duo's bromance, uh, consummated?
"Unfortunately no. But there was a little bit of cross-dressing going on. That's all you need to know."
Great Maker, PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE FILMED WHATEVER THE HELL HAPPENED HERE. I have been having naughty thoughts about that scene since we saw it in the trailer, and this is not helping.
The interview then continues:
For the record, McAvoy would have preferred it if Xavier and Magneto stayed together. Like, really together. "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that him and Magneto don't, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends."
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Not that I don't think they had tons of sex, mind. Apparently those recruitment scenes take close to six months to unfold. The Jupiter missiles were deployed in Turkey in April of 1962, at least in our universe, and the climax of the film doesn't occur until October. It really didn't seem to take that long to round everyone up in the film, but I'm glad to hear that there's that much time to fill with fic.
Having now seen the film twice, I am still trying to puzzle out what the marketing department think the song that plays during the final credits is about. It's called Love Love and has two guys on lead vocals, so I know what I think it's about, but I'm slightly boggled that the Powers That Be might agree with me.
Here is what he has to say in this interview about filming with Michael Fassbender:
"As hard as it was at times - because these things are very hard to make, they are a storm happening all around you every day for six months - we made a pact to try to make each other laugh as much as possible."
In a fab montage, the pair go on a recruiting drive, in which they perch on a strip-club bed.
"That scene got exceptionally silly at one point," says McAvoy. "I don't know if I'm even allowed to tell you what originally happened. But it got pretty f---in' kinky. I'm not joking."
Was the dashing duo's bromance, uh, consummated?
"Unfortunately no. But there was a little bit of cross-dressing going on. That's all you need to know."
Great Maker, PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE FILMED WHATEVER THE HELL HAPPENED HERE. I have been having naughty thoughts about that scene since we saw it in the trailer, and this is not helping.
The interview then continues:
For the record, McAvoy would have preferred it if Xavier and Magneto stayed together. Like, really together. "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that him and Magneto don't, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends."
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Not that I don't think they had tons of sex, mind. Apparently those recruitment scenes take close to six months to unfold. The Jupiter missiles were deployed in Turkey in April of 1962, at least in our universe, and the climax of the film doesn't occur until October. It really didn't seem to take that long to round everyone up in the film, but I'm glad to hear that there's that much time to fill with fic.
Having now seen the film twice, I am still trying to puzzle out what the marketing department think the song that plays during the final credits is about. It's called Love Love and has two guys on lead vocals, so I know what I think it's about, but I'm slightly boggled that the Powers That Be might agree with me.
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Date: 2011-06-04 10:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-06 04:43 am (UTC)Having had a few fandoms where the actors were apparently being gratuitously slashy completely by accident and were offended when people noticed, I definitely prefer this!
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Date: 2011-06-04 11:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-06 04:44 am (UTC)You should be! It even had great things in it that don't involve Charles and Erik staring at each other in meaningful ways.
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Date: 2011-06-04 11:26 am (UTC)It doesn't help that the first 30 seconds or so are eerily similar to Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl". *Waits patiently for mash-up*
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Date: 2011-06-04 03:52 pm (UTC)Seriously though, that is highly encouraging to hear.
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Date: 2011-06-06 05:03 am (UTC)I'm starting suspect it's down to Marvel (and Disney) at this point, since the people actually involved with the films seem to be cool with it.
Seriously though, that is highly encouraging to hear.
Hooray for actor shipping!
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Date: 2011-06-06 03:45 pm (UTC)And I forgot to add Chris Claremont to my explicit list, since actions speak louder than his protests to the contrary.
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Date: 2011-06-05 09:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-06 05:22 am (UTC)I desperately need one of Charles that says 'groovy'. (I don't think I'm every going to stop finding those scenes hilarious.)
And yes, they totally did it during their recruitment months.
I think this may actually explain how it took them almost six months to find and recruit four people. Even allowing for travel time and Wolverine not being the only one to tell them to go fuck themselves, that seems like an inordinately long time. I therefore theorize that they spent much of their time carefully checking for stray mutants in expensive hotel rooms behind the bottles of champagne and German beer ...
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Date: 2011-06-05 12:48 pm (UTC)Oh good! That makes so much more sense. Maybe they did go to Canada!
PS:
(Charles before I messed with his badge:)
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Date: 2011-06-05 01:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-06 05:25 am (UTC)It would explain how they took so long to recruit four people! (Well, not entirely. I am now theorizing that they spent most of those six months carefully checking for stray mutants that might be hiding in the bedrooms of expensive hotels.)
Thank you so much for the shiny icons! Spy!Charles in particular cracks me up *g*.
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Date: 2011-06-13 12:42 am (UTC)so glad you are still like a wee hub of charles/erik excellence in the wide waters of the internet. <3