Emma Corrin felt 'pressure' following in Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy’s footsteps
The actor plays Professor X's twin Cassandra Nova in Deadpool and Wolverine, and tells Yahoo UK how revisiting the X-Men stars' past work proved stressful.
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00:00You went back to look at Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy's take on Professor X,
00:05to kind of inform your portrayal of their twin, Cassandra.
00:08I wondered, you know, what was it like to follow in their footsteps
00:12and take on that role?
00:13I mean, a lot of pressure.
00:15I really questioned whether I should go back and look at it,
00:17because also it's that thing if you don't want to get too close to something,
00:20so you can't make your own version, but I did find it really helpful.
00:24I was just really curious, and when someone...
00:27Obviously, Cassandra has power through her.
00:29There's probably a word for it that I'm missing,
00:30but, like, gesture, finger, power.
00:33God.
00:34But when it's also so interior, when it's like telepathy and in your mind,
00:38how that has been portrayed before,
00:41because it's so much of an internal world and they do it so beautifully,
00:44so, yeah, I found that really interesting.