James McAvoy has admitted that he enjoyed showing off another side to the character of Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class.
The popular X-Men series is back on the big screen this summer as Matthew Vaughn takes the franchise right back to the beginning to show the earlier years of Charles Xavier and Eric Lehnsheer.
And McAvoy said that it was good to play a character that was the complete opposite of what has come before.
Speaking to Comic Book Movie the actor said: "With my character, Charles Xavier, he happens to represent for me what is the exact opposite of Charles in the other movies.
"[In the original films] he's quite a saint, he's very sober, he's a proper hero in a lot of ways and he's a real leader of men.
"I saw enough there to make me feel that I could go quite far and have a lot of fun with doing the exact opposite of those things and making him quite irresponsible to begin with, and selfish and have a bit of an ego and definitely having a sex drive as well,"
McAvoy leads an all star cast of Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, January Jones and Kevin Bacon in the movie.
X-Men: First Class is released 2nd June.
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