Kelsey Grammar, who played Beast in X-Men: The Last Stand, was one of the few original X-Men movie cast members who was not originally invited to reprise his role in X-Men: Days of Future Past. But when Grammar got wind of the multi-generational nature of DOFP, he personally called director Bryan Singer and asked to play the Beast cameo.
As Grammar explained to Collider: "Actually I called Bryan. I bumped into Hugh Jackman and he said, 'Oh you’re gonna be in another X-Men, mate!' and I said, 'No I'm not, I don't know anything about it.' So I made a couple of inquiries, got a hold of the script, found out that it's primarily dealing with the past and that timeline I don't have a place in, but I saw that at the end there was this coda where he made an appearance. I said, 'Listen, I really wanna be involved,' so Bryan arranged for it and I had a lovely time."
Grammar is eager to do another X-Men film, stating unequivocally: "I hope to do another. I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline. Though the next X-Men film, X-Men: Apocalypse is set in the 1980s and primarily involves the young X-Men of X-Men: First Class, word from writer Simon Kinberg is that there will some members of the original cast in Apocalypse, perhaps even Beast."
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Posted by ICv2 on June 22, 2014 @ 3:30 pm CT
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