X-Men Star Famke Janssen Thinks Marvel 'Made a Mistake' By Not Bringing Her Jean Grey Back for Avengers: Doomsday

X-Men prima Famke Janssen has said that Marvel Studios "made a mistake" by neglecting to nonstop her an invitation to reprise her relation arsenic Jean Grey successful Avengers: Doomsday.

The actress, who played the telekinetic Mutant successful the 2000s X-Men trilogy arsenic good arsenic follow-up films similar Days of Future Past, shared her feelings astir the authorities of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) astatine SpaceCon. While galore of her erstwhile castmates are confirmed to return, and contempt erstwhile reports to the contrary, she said she's sitting retired for this year's Avengers movie, whether she likes it oregon not.

"I americium truthful atrocious astatine keeping secrets that I ever accidental to everyone, 'I'm the worst histrion successful the satellite due to the fact that it's each connected my face,'" Janssen said erstwhile asked if she was bully astatine keeping secrets amid casting rumors for the caller MCU movie. "You close distant volition work it. So, I mean, I deliberation they made a mistake, but hey, who americium I? I'm conscionable a small maine who thinks that."

Janssen's Jean Grey has appeared successful plentifulness of pre-MCU comic publication movies and is 1 of the cardinal characters successful the X-Men films. When it was yet confirmed that different X-Men stars similar actors similar Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden would instrumentality for Avengers: Doomsday arsenic Beast, Professor X, Magneto, Nightcrawler, Mystique, and Cyclops, respectively, galore believed she would soon enactment backmost connected her superhero suit, too.

Although she's expressed involvement successful stepping backmost into the caput of Jean Grey successful the past, Janssen has insisted that she volition not look successful the superhero team-up movie erstwhile it premieres this December. She's adjacent gone arsenic acold arsenic to accidental that Marvel has "never ever" asked her to return.

"I should beryllium flattered, I suppose, that this quality has resonated with people,” she said past November. “It's been truthful long, but it's bully that radical are inactive talking astir her. I'm definite each azygous clip there's a caller movie that they're doing, similar [is it] Doomsday? ... it'll travel up again."

Marvel hasn't said wherefore fan-favorite characters similar Janssen's Jean Grey are being near retired of Avengers: Doomsday, but fans surely person immoderate theories. Many judge Sadie Sink is acceptable to play a caller mentation of the quality successful adjacent month's Spider-Man: Brand New Day, for example. Should that mentation cookware out, it wouldn't beryllium a astonishment to spot her instrumentality the reins successful Doomsday oregon different aboriginal MCU project, though thing has been confirmed successful that respect rather yet.

Avengers: Doomsday volition spot Robert Downey Jr. instrumentality implicit arsenic Doctor Doom erstwhile it premieres December 18, 2026. While overmuch volition beryllium revealed erstwhile it yet premieres, Marvel is surely redeeming immoderate surprises for Avengers: Secret Wars, which volition get 1 twelvemonth aboriginal connected December 17, 2027. For now, those hoping to spot Janssen arsenic Jean Grey are amended disconnected revisiting films similar X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand.

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