{"id":632310,"date":"2026-09-30T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632310\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:16:10","slug":"new-professor-x-christopher-abbotts-big-introduction-didnt-go-as-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632310\/","title":{"rendered":"New Professor X Christopher Abbott’s big introduction didn’t go as planned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Abbott should look to Hugh Jackman<\/a>\u2018s career for solace following his deflating first appearance as X-Men leader Professor Charles Xavier. After all, few knew who the beefy Australian actor was when he was cast as Wolverine in Sony\u2019s soon-to-be blockbuster X-Men franchise, and these days Jackman has become a global superstar while portraying the Canadian mutant in an astonishing 11 feature films<\/a> to date.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, as Abbott told New York magazine<\/a>, his first taste of X-Men fame was \u201ca nightmare,\u201d as his appearance at the Disney event introducing the cast of the rebooted X-Men team found the Wolf Man actor greeted with an ego-deflating lack of enthusiasm. \u201cI almost did a fist pump when I walked out, and then I felt like the applause was muted,\u201d said the actor. \u201cSo I was like, \u2018I\u2019m just going to walk out and nod.’\u201d Summing up his first public exposure as the all-powerful mutant telepath, Abbott stated, \u201cIt feels almost like a video game, or a dream. Not like a good dream. It\u2019s a bit of both\u2014a bit of a dream and a nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, Abbott, who appeared onstage at the event<\/a> alongside Obsession<\/a>\u2018s Inde Navarrette (playing Rogue), Broadway actor Maya Boyd (Storm) and Abbott\u2019s former Girls co-star Adam Driver<\/a> (X-Men big bad Mr. Sinister) to wow fans eager for Marvel\u2019s premiere mutant team to make their rebooted MCU debut, could only smile and wave. (Other actors already confirmed include Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Kit Connor as Cyclops and Samara Weaving as Emma Frost.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, there\u2019s always the hope that fans will eventually accept the veteran indie film actor<\/a> as a worthy successor to Patrick Stewart\u2019s indelible Professor X and James McAvoy\u2019s younger Xavier. \u201cI think I started walking out pretty enthusiastically, and then I kind of felt like a lot of people there didn\u2019t know who I was,\u201d says a chastened Abbott, who\u2019s currently starring in Netflix\u2019s highly-anticipated East Of Eden<\/a> alongside fellow MCU mainstay Florence Pugh. \u201cSo then my energy shifted within the split second,\u201d Abbott concluded. \u201cI was a little bit more humble about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The as-yet untitled X-Men reboot will be directed by Jake Schreier and has a release date of May 5, 2028. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Abbott should look to Hugh Jackman\u2018s career for solace following his deflating first appearance as X-Men leader…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-632310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}