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Simu Liu might have put himself in hot water at Marvel Studios by mentioning both Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen at a panel during this year’s New York Comic-Con. He described them as “people who I grew up watching and idolizing,” before going on to suggest that he “maybe [got] the opportunity to do scenes with them” in Avengers: Doomsday (via @AvengersUpdated). Despite trying to backtrack, Liu’s statement that sharing the stage with Stewart and McKellen “was incredible, it was an experience that [he] can’t even describe,” points to one of the MCU’s most powerful partnerships.
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Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen were essential cogs in the machine that was 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise. Stewart portrayed Charles Xavier’s telepathic Professor X, while McKellen took on the role of his archenemy, Erik Lehnsherr’s Master of Magnetism, Magneto. They brought prestige, gravitas, and theatricality to the franchise, and will do the same when they reprise their roles in Avengers: Doomsday alongside other X-Men characters, Kelsey Grammer’s Beast, Rebecca Romijn’s Mystique, James Marsden’s Cyclops, Channing Tatum’s Gambit, and Alan Cumming’s Nightcrawler.
