THE SOCIO-POLITICAL themes and allegories of the X-Men movies demand that the government plays a part in the stories.
The first film, back in 2000, gave us Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison) and a cameo from Henry Gyrich (Matthew Sharp); the second film saw more of the Senator and a US president played by Cotter Smith; and the third brought us a new president (Josef Sommer), head of Homeland Security Bolivar Trask (Bill Duke) and Kelsey Grammer's Dr Hank McCoy/Beast as Secretary of Mutant Affairs.
X-Men: First Class needs a political figure too and into that role has stepped Ray Wise, the latest cast member to join the ensemble production.
Wise - who played the vice-president in 24 and The Devil in Reaper - tells IGN: "I'm playing the Secretary of State of the United States. I'll be going over there (to the Pinewood film set) in the next couple of weeks. I love Matthew [Vaughn]. And Bryan Singer's producing it and [it's got] a great cast - James McAvoy, January Jones, Oliver Platt."
Asked if he was in any special effects scenes, he replied: "Well, I think I touch on them, yeah, a bit."
Meanwhile, Singer is now casting his next film, a new version of Jack The Giant Killer for Warner Bros. Among those who may be climbing the beanstalk to rescue a princess from the land of the giants is Nicholas Hoult, who is playing the young version of Beast in First Class.
Nicholas is on a shortlist with Aaron Johnson and Aneurin Banard, reports HeatVision, which adds that Jamie C...
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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]
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