{"id":618740,"date":"2026-10-02T19:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618740\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:30:18","slug":"christopher-abbott-did-not-enjoy-his-kraven-the-hunter-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618740\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Abbott did not enjoy his Kraven The Hunter experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christopher Abbott has leveled up considerably in the superhero sphere since his appearance in Sony\u2019s widely derided Spider-Man spin-off, Kraven The Hunter<\/a>. He\u2019s set to star in\u00a0X-Men, Marvel Studios\u2019 huge post-Secret Wars MCU entry, as Professor Charles Xavier<\/a>, a dream and\/or nightmare scenario<\/a> that finds the actor taking on the role embodied by genre heavyweights Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy. Abbott\u2019s doing just fine at the moment. In fact, he seemed pretty laid-back on Josh Horowitz\u2019s Happy Sad Confused podcast on Thursday<\/a>\u2014comfortable enough, even, to confront the last time he appeared in a superhero-ish movie. Asked by Horowitz whether Abbott owes Kraven director and \u201cgood buddy\u201d J.C. Chandor for his role in the film, or if Chandor owes Abbott, the actor smiled and rubbed his eyes. \u201cHe owes me big time,\u201d he deadpanned. \u201cI feel like I can safely\u2026 y\u2019know, I can shit-talk myself. I didn\u2019t know what I was doing in that thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll recall Abbott played The Foreigner, a Spider-Man foe created by Peter David and Rich Buckler in 1986, who\u2019s hired by Alessandro Nivola\u2019s The Rhino to whack Aaron Taylor-Johnson\u2019s Kraven in the film. Or maybe you won\u2019t, which is perfectly understandable; few people caught Kraven during its theatrical run, and besides, it\u2019s not like Abbott holds his time as the villain in high regard. \u201cI didn\u2019t understand what the superpower was! I didn\u2019t know what was going on,\u201d he said. \u201cI was like, \u2018So I take off my glasses and what happens?\u2019 And I feel like no one had a good answer.\u201d The on-set confusion over the Foreigner\u2019s superpowers is somewhat baffling, considering they were created whole cloth for the movie; the character as first presented in the comics had no superpowers, which set him apart from other Spider-Man enemies who need things like \u201cspecial abilities\u201d and \u201cgoblin gliders\u201d to fight the Web-Head. (Still and all, this writer is struggling to remember the Foreigner\u2019s powers in the movie, and rewatching Kraven is not an option, unfortunately. Deadlines, you understand.) At any rate, Abbott says he thinks of his experience on the film as a learning curve, and promises X-Men will be a better film than Kraven was. \u201cI will guarantee you that,\u201d he assured Horowitz.<\/p>\n

You can watch Abbott talk Kraven in the video below, beginning at the 39:45 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Abbott has leveled up considerably in the superhero sphere since his appearance in Sony\u2019s widely derided Spider-Man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-618740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}