Sophie Turner on Playing Jean Grey in X-MEN: APOCALYPSE and Bryan Singer's Set Photos
Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner was cast as a young Jean Grey in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse. She's a great choice for the role, and I think she's going to deliver a brilliant performance. During an interview with IGN, the actress talked about the character, the role she is going to take on, and why she thinks she got the part.
“I think maybe one of the reasons that they chose me for [Jean] is because they saw the dark side of Sansa. Maybe they’re thinking, ‘Oh, Phoenix, Jean Grey.’ I definitely see a lot of parallels in there…..[Jean] struggles with her power… and not being accepted in the human world. I think in terms of [Game of Thrones], that’s kind of the way Sansa felt in that she really wanted to be a normal princess/queen and live a normal life — and she doesn’t, because of all this havoc happens. I think Jean, in a way, feels that.”
Turner goes on to talk about the influence of Famke Janssen, who as you know, originally played Grey in the films. She explains that she plans to emulate Janssen as well as bringing her own thing to the character.
“I think Famke played Jean incredibly well, but also, I’m playing a younger version of her. I want to emulate Famke in a sense, because she has to seem like the Jean in the first two movies, but I’m also going to put my own twist on her. I think I’m also going to take inspiration from the comics. I don’t know, we’ll see.”
In other X-Men: Apocalypse related news, Singer has been releasing photos from some of the set construction being done, one of which teases the familiar door to Professor X's Cerebro. But Singer teases that there will be "something new behind it."
The movie also stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Alexandra Shipp as Storm, Tye Sheridan as Cyclops, and Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse.
X-Men: Apocalypse is set for release on May 27th, 2016.