James McAvoy, who plays Charles Xavier in 'X-Men: First Class,' sat down with CinemaBlend and gave a little insight into his character, as well as briefly mentioning the end scene of the film.

Beginning with his take on Xavier, and how he will develop on screen, he said:

"You look at the kind of main, defining characteristics of Professor X, of Charlie Boy, and you go, 'Alright, he's selfless. He's a saint. He's sexless, it seems. He's egoless. He's all about other people. He's all about bettering the world and mutantkind and humankind.' And so you kind of try and flip that on its head. You don't make him an evil person, or anything like that, but you make him ego-driven, women-chasing, he likes a good drink. He's not the reluctant leader that you kind of want all heroes to be. He actually kind of wants to be in charge, you know what I mean? And all of those things, just to kind of show a journey. So by the end of the movie he’s some way towards becoming Patrick Stewart['s version of the character], rather than just having the same guy at the beginning."

He finished up by lightly describing the ending sequence of the film, and the reshoots that are being done. He said:

"We doing a tiny little tweak on the very end, finale thing between me and Michael [Fassbender], who plays Magneto. And we're doing, what else are we doing? It's all little bits and bobs and things that we dropped or didn’t know we needed or trying to fix a little scene here or there or tighten up a scene here or there. We're doing a little bit on a boat at one point, which is going to be fun; then a lot of underwater stuff last week, which I can't really tell you what it's about, but it's quite exciting. Just bits and bobs really."

McAvoy told Parade that he is "nervous" about his version of Xavier since his and Stewart's "characterizations are very, very different", especially with the new gesture McAvoy has added.

"In the comic books, Professor X often has to put his hands to his temples. And I thought, "Well, I'm going to do that." I might be doing Patrick a disservice, but I don't think he did that in the other movies."

McAvoy has previously admitted that his character's superpowers means he had "less stunt work to do" than the other actors, but told The Daily Record that he won't be excluded from fight scenes completely.

"Professor X is not too combat-savvy in this film, it has to be said. He doesn't do too much, he's sort of a consultant with the combat guys. But he does get involved in a few little bits of fisticuffs. I wouldn't say that he comes out well but I wouldn't say that he gets his ass kicked either."


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