{"id":257218,"date":"2025-11-02T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257218\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:43:08","slug":"famke-janssen-gets-asked-about-jean-grey-by-everybody-except-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257218\/","title":{"rendered":"Famke Janssen gets asked about Jean Grey by everybody\u2014except Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famke Janssen has a new Netflix show out this week, with\u00a0her Dutch crime drama\u00a0Amsterdam Empire\u00a0getting a global debut back on October 30. But, deep down, Janssen knowns that people are frequently only interested in asking her about one thing, i.e., a project she was last part of fully 11 years ago (and even then, only as a cameo<\/a>): Fox\u2019s original X-Men\u00a0movies, where she played psychic powerhouse Jean Grey. In fact, there\u2019s only one group that apparently resists the urge to ask Janssen about her time riding the ol\u2019 Phoenix on the regular: The Walt Disney Corporation, which has apparently never talked to her, even once, about reprising the role, despite its general nostalgia mining of the old X-properties in recent years.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever. Never ever,\u201d Janssen said when asked by Entertainment Weekly <\/a>if she\u2019d ever had conversations about bringing her version of Jean back for the MCU. (This, despite the fact that a large number of her former co-stars on the franchise will be back for next December\u2019s Avengers: Doomsday, including Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, James Marsden, Kelsey Grammer, Rebecca Romjin, and Alan Cumming.) (We can\u2019t help but wonder if the absence is because the character\u2019s power level throws a bunch of MCU stuff out of whack\u2014or if it\u2019s something simpler, like the fact that\u00a0X-Men: Dark Phoenix<\/a>, which focused so heavily on Sophie Turner\u2019s version of the character, was a disastrous flop for Disney in the immediate aftermath of its big Fox purchase.)<\/p>\n

It all sounds pretty academic to Janssen, though, who appears to have gained some level of acceptance about how influential a role (that she herself apparently never cared all that much about) has become. \u201cEvery time I do an interview, it\u2019s mentioned,\u201d she notes. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting. I didn\u2019t realize that was such a big part. Every interview I do, that will come up, and of everything I say, that is going to be the only thing that\u2019s gonna be printed. I should be flattered, I suppose, that this character has resonated with people. It\u2019s been so long, but it\u2019s nice that people are still talking about her. I\u2019m sure every single time there\u2019s a new movie that they\u2019re doing\u2026 it\u2019ll come up again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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