{"id":947935,"date":"2026-10-31T19:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947935\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T19:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T19:34:09","slug":"christopher-abbott-is-open-to-shaving-his-head-for-professor-x-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947935\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Abbott is open to shaving his head for Professor X role"},"content":{"rendered":"

When an actor takes on a famous role, there are many factors to consider. For instance, what is it about the character that appeals to them? Is there an aspect of the actor\u2019s personality they can bring to this role to make it their own? Does the role call for a bald head where the actor is known for having lush, curly hair? Such ponderings would be overwhelming for any actor, but for Christopher Abbot, the star of HBO\u2019s Girls,\u00a0The Wolf Man, and\u00a0Kraven The Hunter<\/a>, there\u2019s one aspect of taking on Professor Charles Xavier\u2014perhaps the biggest role in his career so far, and one that has him following the late Patrick Stewart<\/a>, so, you know, no pressure\u2014that the actor is taking in stride. In a new profile for Esquire<\/a>, Abbott discussed his interesting, previously low-key acting career (and chatted a bit about his growing family with partner Aubrey Plaza) when the subject of Marvel Studios\u2019 huge X-Men reboot<\/a> came up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since it\u2019s still early days in production\u2014in fact, Marvel has yet to issue a script to its cast, which includes Sadie Sink as Jean Grey<\/a>, Inde Navarrette as Rogue, Kit Connor as Cyclops<\/a>, and Adam Driver as the villain Mister Sinister\u2014Abbott isn\u2019t letting the responsibilities of his new gig get to him just yet. \u201cI\u2019m excited to approach it with some real-deal kind of character work,\u201d he told Esquire. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be a lot of things to chew on. But I got to read [the script] first to see where they go with it [\u2026] It\u2019s also just nice to look forward to something and a character that I think actually has some layers and depth,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

Speaking of layers, Esquire\u2018s Josh Rosenberg couldn\u2019t help but ask how Abbott will tame his dark, flowing locks when the time comes to sit in Professor X\u2019s hoverchair\u2014a notable contrast to his predecessor\u2019s famous bald look, brought on by hereditary alopecia, which Stewart wore famously well throughout his career. \u201cMy hair\u2019s pretty thick,\u201d Abbott admits. \u201cI\u2019ve shaved my head for things before, and I\u2019m down. But if my head is anything like my face, three hours later it\u2019s going to be back. So I\u2019m not sure because he\u2019s not shaving his head every day. I want it to feel right.\u201d Perhaps Abbott can solicit advice from fellow Professor X actor James McAvoy, who kept his own dome shorn<\/a> for his last two X-Men films and accidentally shaved his head for his first crack at Professor X in X-Men: First Class, which, oops, required him to have hair.<\/a> Maybe Abbot will be satisfied with a skull cap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When an actor takes on a famous role, there are many factors to consider. For instance, what is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-947935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}