His name, along with the name of several other mutants, was listed on Stryker's computer. Later, athletics officials adopt a genetic testing policy in partnership with Trask Industries in which no athletes carrying the mutant X-Gene can compete in professional sporting events. This sparks a controversy of mutant participation in athletics. An investigation is conducted on him in which he is revealed to be a mutant. In 1977, Peter participates in a track and field competition and breaks 8 world records. He was the result of an affair between Ms. They tried to teach me some jumping over shit and that was funny too.Peter Maximoff was born in 1955. Then I’m supposed to sprint to the other end of the room to prevent the bullets from hitting my friends –- but there’s water all over the floor and I slip and fall – I just eat shit ( laughs). There’s a section of the scene where I’m moving the arms of two cops, so their guns will move. And I’m just running around pretending to move them. And there are these four guys keeping their eyes open and pretending to be frozen. There are a lot of motion capture camera moves and you are shooting with a phantom camera, which shoots in super slow motion – and the room is brighter than any sunny day. Then we get upstairs to the kitchen and it’s all very technical. It was really cool because in the elevator me and Fassbender got to improvise a lot and just play around, which is so much fun. What was shooting the kitchen scene like? PHOTOS: Exclusive Portraits of Ellen Page It was two different two-week sessions up in Montreal. I think I was actually shooting eight or nine days. I was blown away because I audition for things all the time and I don’t get things - and here I get a role in the new X-Men movie as Quicksilver? I was going, “What the hell is going on? This is awesome!” What was getting that offer call like?īryan Singer called me and said he’s a fan of American Horror Story and he wanted me for the role. You didn’t have to audition for this role. He sort of has this attitude that he can get away with anything. But it was really the mischievous quality that was something that Bryan and I worked on. You don’t want to make him too crazy and too caffeinated. It was trying to find the right attitude for him. What was the key to getting the character so right? PHOTOS: ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Premiere They were great and really funny and nice guys - Hugh and James and Nicholas. I had grown up watching all of the X-Men films, and then there’s Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in front of me. You stole scenes from huge characters such as Wolverine and Magneto. I was super excited and almost in shock at how good the movie was and how the Quicksilver stuff looked. I saw it the Tuesday before the premiere in New York.
When was the first time you saw all of your scenes onscreen? I’m super happy with it and pleasantly surprised by how awesome it turned out.
They were filming it and said it would look really cool.
I had never done anything like this before.
But I didn’t know any of the special effects they had planned. I knew the character was cool and what they had written was great. When you were cast, did you know Quicksilver would become a breakout character? And for more on Quicksilver’s development, check out our Q&A with Days of Future Past screenwriter Simon Kinberg here. Here, Evans breaks down jitters about going toe-to-toe with Hugh Jackman, improvising with Fassbender and the possibility of an expanded role in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse. “I’m supposed to sprint to the other end of the room to prevent the bullets from hitting my friends - but there’s water all over the floor and I slip and fall - I just eat shit,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. While it looked amazing onscreen, the shooting of the scene wasn’t as smooth. Q&A: ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Writer Says Final Scenes Leave ‘Mysteries’ to Explore