In a recent conversation with Larry King, Patrick Stewart was pointedly asked about his involvement in APOCALYPSE, the next X-MEN movie, due on screens May 2016.
No. Nor Sir Ian McKellen, either. I was learning quite a lot more about it last night, and it is going to be looking very much at the earlier lives of all our characters. And so I don’t think we’ll be making an appearance.
Here's video of the same...
On a not-particularly-related note, if you’ve veer wondered what Stewart would’ve sounded like as Jean-Luc Picard, using the French accent they once considered for that character, check this out.
That catheter story is pretty funny, too. Self catheterization? I’m gonna curl up in a corner and cry…
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Glen Oliver
“Merrick”