AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Actor Kelsey Grammer Calls X-MEN Character Beast "The Martin Luther King of the Mutants"

Kelsey Grammer has been vocal about his excitement to return to the role of Beast from the X-Men franchise. He first jumped into the Marvel universe in the post-credits scene of The Marvels, where fans were stoked to see that he was returning to reprise his mutant character.

He has since been cast in the major ensemble event film, Avengers: Doomsday, and he spoke a bit about Hank McCoy aka Beast in a recent appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima Show, where he said:

“I love the character. I love his… he is a stalwart, upright, serious-minded, decent man. And that’s what I love about him. I think of him as being the Martin Luther King of the Mutants. He’s got a dignity and a dream and is willing to fight for it — but slow to action in terms of fighting.

He will always find every way he can not to have to fight. And then when it’s the last possible response, then it’s swift and severe. You know, give no quarter, expect none. And I liked that about him. He’s a man of real stature, and that’s what I intend to bring to him — ethical conduct. He’s a man who studies good and does his best to live by that. And I like that.”

Nicholas Hoult was cast as a younger take on McCoy in X-Men: First Class, and continued to play the character over the next three Fox-era movies. Grammer admits to feeling a bit "crestfallen" at the time.

“The response was pretty big, pretty positive. Like, ‘Oh my God, it’s Beast'. They did the… you know, they had the younger guy come on and play Beast for a couple. And I was a little crestfallen over that. I thought, ‘Oh gee whiz.’ But… I’ve always wanted to play him again.”

We will just have to wait and see how his character does in this upcoming storyline, but hopefully he will be able to stick around for a while.

Avengers: Doomsday arrives in theaters on May 1, 2026, followed by Avengers: Secret Wars on May 7, 2027.