'X-Men' actress would 'mind-control' Donald Trump
- By Zhang Rui
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"X-Men: Apocalypse" actress Sophie Turner said in Beijing on Wednesday that she would like to use telepathic power to control U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump to do good things.
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Actor Evan Peters, actress Sophie Turner and director Bryan Singer receive gifts of flour figures of X-men characters made by Chinese fans at a press conference in Beijing on May 18, 2016. [Photo / China.org.cn] |
Turner was asked by a student at a meet-and-greet event at China's elite Tsinghua University what she would do if she had telepathic powers like what her X-Men character Jean Grey.
She jokingly said she would probably use her mind-reading skills to get into the minds of some prominent figures, such as Donald Trump. "I would cause him to some good decisions."
Turner, along with "X-Men: Apocalypse" director Bryan Singer and fellow actor Evan Peters, appeared in two events in Beijing yesterday to promote the new superhero flick.
It is the ninth installment in the X-Men film series, which features an ensemble cast starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Alexandra Shipp, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn and Lucas Till. In "Apocalypse," an ancient mutant Apocalypse awakens and plans to take over the world; the X-Men need to stop him and defeat his team, the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse.
Turner will play young "Phoenix" Jean Grey. Famke Janssen portrayed Jean in the previous five installments. Turner said at an earlier press conference before the Tsinghua event that she learned and got inspiration from Janssen to do her own version of the character. "In this movie, it was like a process for Jean to go from a girl to a woman."
Bryan Singer said at the press conference that young versions of certain characters, such as Jean Grey, are meant to introduce the film to a younger generation of fans. He said there are many characters in the movie but he was trying to portray each character with a story in order to make each character vivid.
He said the movie adaptation of X-men and other comics should "capture the essence of the comics, the essence of the characters and their world. For instance, You don't give Wolverine two claws, he has three." But talking about people who don’t read comics, he said: "You have to make sacrifices and contain the story and create balance."
"I'm very proud of this film," the director later said at the Tsinghua event, saying he first signed on to do X-men movies as early as in 1996. After "Apocalypse" he may step away from the X-men series and take a break to work on other film projects, but in the future he may also direct or produce X-men movies since he cannot let go of the successful series he helped create.
He also said that the X-men movie speaks to him personally. Although he wasn't a religious person, he grew up in a Catholic neighborhood and had many other personal issues. He said he was once a nerd in school, an outsider like the characters in the X-men movies.
"I felt an identification with characters that are outsiders and who dream of going to a place like Professor Xavier's mansion and school, where they can excel and embrace their differences as opposed to feeling like an outcast, so it's very inspirational to me."
"X-Men: Apocalypse" will hit Chinese theaters on June 3, 2016.
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