Anthony Mackie Hopes For An X-Men & Captain America Team-Up In ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
Anthony Mackie is getting ready to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and hopes for an X-Men team-up in Avengers: Doomsday.
With the next installment of the Avengers saga in production, the Captain America: Brave New World star talked about which superhero he was excited to film with.
“Look, I am a big Cyclops fan. That’s my favorite X-Men. I have a Cyclops action figure on my key chain that I’ve had since high school,” Mackie said in an interview with Screen Rant while promoting his film Sneaks. “When I was in high school, the X-Men cartoon was really big, and this was before the movies.”
He continued, “I’ve always been a huge Cyclops fan, and I’m really, really excited – hopefully, knock on wood – for them to be a part of it and come into it. [I’m excited] to hang out with Xavier and Beast and all those guys.”
Furthermore, Mackie said that his favorite is Nightcrawler, adding, “If I can hang out with one character? Me and Nightcrawler in the French Quarter during Mardi Gras for two weeks, that’s what I do.”
Nightcrawler will be featured in Avengers: Doomsday with Alan Cumming reprising the role he played in 2003’s X2.
Cumming recently teased that he has had makeup tests to reprise his role and in an interview on Today with Jenna & Friends said, “What’s great about it, it was four and a half to five hours before, and now it was 90 minutes … before all the tattoos were done by hand because they hadn’t decided on thm before we started filming and now there are all these little things that stick on — it’s a game changer.”
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Other X-Men actors set to reprise their roles in the new Avengers movie include Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier / Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), and James Marsden (Cyclops).
Avengers: Doomsday is set to hit theaters on May 1, 2026.
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