{"id":745742,"date":"2026-08-22T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745742\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:02:11","slug":"tom-pelphrey-talks-missing-out-on-x-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745742\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Pelphrey Talks Missing Out On “X-Men”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>HBO<\/p>\n

At D23 last weekend came the news that \u201cWolf Man\u201d actor Christopher Abbott had taken the role of Professor X in the upcoming \u201cX-Men\u201d film at Marvel Studios.<\/p>\n

The casting followed a number of names that had been rumored for the role including the likes of Bill Skarsgard, Harris Dickinson, Will Poulter and Tom Pelphrey.<\/p>\n

Pelphrey is arguably the least known of the group, but the \u201cOzark,\u201d \u201cBanshee\u201d and \u201cTask\u201d actor has scored two Emmy nominations for his work and been a fan favourite in some of his roles.<\/p>\n

Appearing on THR\u2019s Awards Chatter<\/a> podcast which was just published and was conducted just three days before Abbott was announced in the role, the actor confirmed he was in the running for the role and laughs that it might be a good thing he didn\u2019t for a very practical reason:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve also got a fat head. I have a watermelon. I was like, \u201cIf we\u2019re even going to have this conversation, go into your AI image generator and look at me with a shaved head. That alone could be horrifying enough.\u201d I\u2019m not kidding. The only hat I can wear is a fitted size eight. It is empirically a big fat head, and I don\u2019t know if we want to see it shaved.\u201d<\/p>\n

He adds that \u201cto have those [X-Men audition] experiences \u2013 and some of the other conversations and meetings I\u2019ve had that haven\u2019t been reported \u2013 it\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

More casting for \u201cX-Men\u201d is expected to be announced soon with Knight Edge Media<\/a> reporting that Cailee Spaeny is still reportedly speaking with Marvel about a smaller role in the film, not Rogue as previously rumored, a part that could be expanded in later features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO At D23 last weekend came the news that \u201cWolf Man\u201d actor Christopher Abbott had taken the role…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}