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Jennifer Lawrence: "I won't be Mystique in the X-Men movies"
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Tony Redgrave
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I'm shocked!
I mean, she hasn't been really playing as the character for a while now, she was just Jennifer Lawrence in blue makeup for a couple of minutes in each movie. If she herself isn't enjoying the part I think it's good for everybody (but the studio, I guess) that she moves on.
I mean, she hasn't been really playing as the character for a while now, she was just Jennifer Lawrence in blue makeup for a couple of minutes in each movie. If she herself isn't enjoying the part I think it's good for everybody (but the studio, I guess) that she moves on.
Maintenance
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Thank god.
ElBoxyBrown
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Uhhh, if your gonna accuse him of being a pedophile you can leave out the fact that he's gay. That has nothing to do with pedophilia.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Mystique wears clothes in the comics so idk where the butt naked comes from.
I thought the issue was her phoning it in, now she's tryharding? Also I think calling her a bitch is a bit much considering none of us know her. Is RDJ a bitch for asking for so much money Disney isn't making Iron Man solo movies anymore?
The XMen movies were passable at best regardless.
andythinkpad
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She really has no chemistry with anyone. She was only good in winter s bone imo.
Sir_Crocodile
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Great news on X-Men.
Please don't work on GOTG though
Please don't work on GOTG though
Beerman462
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Wow. I normally don't let entertainers off screen stuff bother me, but this is Tom Cruise berating Matt Lauer levels of bad. She's being very glib.
NOLA_Gaffer
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Jennifer Lawrence's 15 minutes of fame are long over.
What did he mean by this?
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She wouldve made the perfect Captain Marvel. All her drunk interview failures epitomize Carol's entire publication history
Yasssssss....
The Artisan
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Rebecca Romijn
oh yes
And in that movie her character is suppose to be this lonely young woman. No chemistry with co-stars required...
But seriously, Winter's Bone is amazing.
You're taking the remark out of context. The focus was on the hetero part. Bryan Singer is a known pervert who seems to surround himself with underage boys. The part about girls is lesser known. The implication is that he's not a gay pedophile like most assume, but also a pedophile with his eyes on young girls.
Sanctuary
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Since you're wanting to nitpick, I guess I should have just left out Azazel and said "parent", but it was speculated long before he was ever introduced that not only was Mystique Nightcrawler's mother, that his father was some kind of demon during the period when there was more of a focus on Magick (Illyana Rasputin) in the earlier years of the New Mutants. Even more speculation happened again during Inferno. I'm not talking about Belasco either.
Maybe it was just a bunch of fan guesswork that the writers at the time decided to finally implement in some form, but it had been going on for over a decade before Azazel was officially introduced. I also don't know what character I'm thinking of either, since I just looked through #428 and it shows the whole affair with Mystique until she reveals that she's pregnant, but there's either a Classic X-Men, or What If? scenario that has another demonic figure in a suit, but with a lighter shade of purple (puce maybe) from either the late 70s or early 80s (especially easy to remember how different the actual coloration of the print looked back then too from the mid to late 90s and beyond). In that particular book though, the person (I swore it was Mystique) that was with this character didn't actually know he was a demon. It was revealed in the final panels out of view.
Anyway, I've actually been rereading the comics from the first issue in order, so maybe I'll be able to stumble upon what exactly I'm remembering.
Say what you want about most of the characters, but First Class and Days of Future Past do a pretty great take on Magneto. Having Fassbender helps immensely of course, but I don't feel like his was just trying to make the most of what he was given at all. I also don't believe Xavier was done any injustices either. The rest of the characters though who aren't Wolverine? LOL. I also happened to think the first and third X-Men movies were utter rubbish, but I really enjoyed the second, fourth and fifth despite all of the mangling of characters. And I'm someone who used to get really annoyed with how the characters were butchered in the 90s cartoon too.
We've come full circle
CGwizz
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She is a terrible Mystique because who would love to be in these shit xmen movies fox makes, mystique in the movies is nothing like mystique in comics, they butchered all these characters in the movies why care about that role... Just sell the rights to Marvel ffs and let them make good movies out of this franchise or just stop butchering this franchise pls thanks bye.
All x.men movies are garbage, ALL.
All x.men movies are garbage, ALL.
cartographer
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Those damn women always complaining about not getting paid as much as their male peers, right man?
No, I completely agree that women should be paid more, it's just that in her very specific case it was completely uncalled for and a phony argument. She was signed to do three X-Men films for a specific pay, that was less than the McAvoy and Fassbender because at that time, Fassbender and McAvoy were big stars and Lawrence was still very much an up-and-coming actress. People knew her from Winter's Bone, but it was not like she was a huge name. Even then she was IIRC the third highest paid actor on X-Men First Class. Then came The Hunger Games and her Oscar and suddenly Lawrence wants to be paid more, despite Fox just sticking to their contractual obligation. When people pointed that out, she quickly changed her argument and said "yeah, but women in general..."
Mila Kunis did this the right way, By protesting the lower pay for women, but at the same time acknowledging that she has nothing to complain about. Lawrence just wanted something to back up her argument that she deserved to be paid more.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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like how the baby is "Yeah I am fucked"
Artists that still give her the forehead skull 💩
cartographer
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So Mila Kunis is one of the good ones? Knew to be happy in her place?
I'd also recommend revisiting what Lawrence actually wrote about the pay gap, because you seem to be focused on things other than what she actually said.
http://www.lennyletter.com/work/a147/jennifer-lawrence-why-do-i-make-less-than-my-male-costars/
edit: Gonna get a way late, after-the-fact edit in here to explain myself better instead of just snarking by ass off:
By saying that Kunis did it "the right way" by saying that she didn't have anything to complain about, you're basically:
1) Tone policing equality, and doing so using a pretty common "you have nothing to complain about" suppression argument. This is just a shitty outlook. Wage equality shouldn't have a glass ceiling, even for people far away from the working class like Kunis and Lawrence. And given their stature in society, bringing up their situations can help embolden others to do the same, or at the very least keep the issue in the news. So nah, I'm not having this.
2) You're doing so either over what seems to be a faulty remembering of what she actually says. You're doing so over what are some pretty damn tame comments like:
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