{"id":71894,"date":"2025-08-10T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71894\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:02:11","slug":"james-marsden-calls-filming-avengers-doomsday-pretty-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71894\/","title":{"rendered":"James Marsden Calls Filming &#8216;Avengers: Doomsday&#8217; &#8216;Pretty Special&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a full-circle moment, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-marsden\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-marsden\" data-tag=\"james-marsden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Marsden<\/a> is returning to the role that first put him \u201con the map.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paradise\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paradise\" data-tag=\"paradise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paradise<\/a> actor and newly minted Emmy nominee sat down with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/paradise-star-james-marsden-avengers-interview\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a> recently to discuss reprising his <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/x-men\/\" id=\"auto-tag_x-men\" data-tag=\"x-men\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X-Men<\/a> character Cyclops in the Russo Brothers\u2019 forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/avengers-doomsday\/\" id=\"auto-tag_avengers-doomsday\" data-tag=\"avengers-doomsday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m getting a little long in the tooth to put on the superhero costume,\u201d he said, laughing. \u201cI was excited because you\u2019re a part of something gigantic, and I\u2019ve spent 20 years listening to people say, \u2018When are you coming back? When are you coming back? Are you coming back?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Westworld and Dead to Me alum continued, \u201cI\u2019m dead. Well, maybe not. I\u2019m going to have a tough time struggling to get into costume if they waited a couple more years. So it\u2019s been a blast. It really has. It\u2019s been a nice little homecoming to a role that really put me on the map. It was the first real event project that I was ever a part of, and a very beloved character, this icon from the comics. And so to step back into that role was pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMarsden first portrayed Scott Summers\/Cyclops in Bryan Singer\u2019s X-Men (2000), reprising the role in subsequent sequels X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Though his character is killed off early on in the latter movie by Famke Janssen\u2019s Jean Grey alter ego Dark Phoenix, Marsden returned in a brief cameo role in 2014\u2019s time-warping X-Men: Days of Future Past, which erases his death and that of other X-Men characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThough much is under wraps about Avengers: Doomsday, which is scheduled for theatrical release on December 18, 2026 as part of Marvel\u2019s Phase Six, it will center on supervillain and Fantastic Four arch nemesis Dr. Doom (Robert Downey Jr.). In addition to Marsden, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/05\/next-avengers-movies-push-release-dates-dog-stars-devil-wears-prada-1236409088\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed cast members include<\/a>\u00a0Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Paul Rudd, Letitia Wright, Florence Pugh, Simu Liu, Tom Hiddleston, Wyatt Russell, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Danny Ramirez, Hannah John-Kamen, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, Kelsey Grammer, Channing Tatum, Tenoch Huerta Mej\u00eda, Lewis Pullman and The Fantastic Four:\u00a0First Steps actors Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a full-circle moment, James Marsden is returning to the role that first put him \u201con the map.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[6847,88,51628,206,13284,9616],"class_list":{"0":"post-71894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avengers-doomsday","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-james-marsden","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-paradise","13":"tag-x-men"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}