New X-Men actor Christopher Abbott has recalled his harsh “learning curve” as part of the Kraven the Hunter cast.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know what I was doing in that thing,” Abbott said on Happy Sad Confused<\/a> of playing The Foreigner in the 2024 Spider-Man spin-off.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To that end, Abbott admitted to not even understanding his character’s abilities, which involved hypnosis.<\/p>\n Latest Videos FromGamesRadar+<\/p>\n “I didn’t understand what the superpower was; I didn’t know what was going on. I take off my glasses? What happens? I feel like no one really had a good answer,” Abbott said, who also mentioned that he felt “in the moment” he didn’t think it was “going well.<\/p>\n Abbott added, “I don’t know what I was wearing in that thing. I’ve sort of buried that deep\u2026 it’s a learning curve.”<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Kraven starred Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the eponymous hunter, who has long been a thorn in the side of Spider-Man in Marvel’s comics.<\/p>\n The movie may have bombed on release \u2013 generating only $60 million at the worldwide box office \u2013 but Abbott has managed to shift to another superhero project which should have a bright future: X-Men.<\/p>\n There, he will portray Professor Xavier \u2013 though admitted he felt his D23 reveal alongside the rest of the cast fell a little flat<\/a> in his eyes.<\/p>\n “I think I started walking out pretty enthusiastically, and then I kind of felt like a lot of people there didn’t know who I was, so then my energy shifted within the split second,” Abbott told The Cut<\/a>.<\/p>\n X-Men hits cinemas on May 5, 2028.<\/p>\n For more on that and other future projects, we have a guide to upcoming Marvel movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you’re lagging behind before Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>, we have a comprehensive rundown of how to watch the Marvel movies in order<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New X-Men actor Christopher Abbott has recalled his harsh “learning curve” as part of the Kraven the Hunter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789644","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=789644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}