He’s acquired his eye on it.
James Marsden will reprise his “X-Men” function as Scott Summers / Cyclops in “Avengers Doomsday.”
“I was worried that I wasn’t going to be able to do any of this physical stuff, but it all worked out great. I still fit the costume!” Marsden, 52, advised The Post.
Marsden, who was speaking to The Post whereas selling Season 2 of the AppleTV+ present “Your Friends & Neighbors,” initially performed Cyclops in 2000’s “X-Men,” when he was 26.
Along with the primary “X-Men” film’s stars, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart, he additionally reprised the function in “X2: X Men United” (2003) and “X Men: The Last Stand” (2006).
About filming “Avengers: Doomsday,” Marsden advised The Post that it was “great to see my old friends again, and to reunite with Patrick and Ian and Rebecca,” referring to Stewart, McKellen, and Rebecca Romijn.
“For the longest time, I didn’t think it was going to happen,” Marsden advised The Post. “I just thought, ‘okay, well, that’s kind of done…they don’t want the fifty year-old version of me.’”
His considerations about his age have been alleviated throughout filming, when he noticed that McKellen, 86, was “pushing his stunt double aside going, ‘let me try!’”
The “Paradise” actor was tight-lipped about the plot however stated, “It’s going to be a lot of fun seeing all these worlds come together.”
With the exception of Jackman’s Wolverine, who appeared within the 2024 hit “Deadpool & Wolverine,” these X-Men characters haven’t been within the bigger Marvel world. But the “Avengers: Doomsday” trailer revealed that a number of of them can be featured within the film.
They’ll seem alongside beforehand introduced “Doomsday” stars equivalent to Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans.
“Doomsday” would be the thirty ninth movie within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a sequel to 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”
“Avengers: Doomsday” premieres Dec. 18, 2026.
