Watch X-Men: First Class Streaming - 3 New Casting Announcements!

As I promised, there is more news from the casting front with X-Men: First Class.

The first announcement is certainly a smaller one with 10 year old Morgan Lily stepping in as a young Mystique. It kind of surprised me that they have her in the story so young when we also know that Jennifer Lawrence will be playing a teen-aged Mystique in the movie as well.

The second announcement is that 15 year old Bill Milner will be playing a 15 year old Magneto. That may be where little girl Mystique comes in, they do seem to have some serious back story between them. But again, I'm not sure what the angle is.

The third announcement is that Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lenny and Lisa Bonet, has been cast in the movie. The word is that she will be playing the role of Angel. A character with no connection to any of the characters that we already know.

However, there are strong rumors that this could be a casting misdirect and I've read that some people think that Zoe could be stepping into the role of Storm as played by Halle Berry.

I like that idea.

So there you have it, the second dose of X-Men news for the day.

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Watch X-Men: First Class - Jennifer Lawrence Interview!

Yesterday we talked about Jennifer Lawrence playing the part of Mystique in X-Men: First Class.

And today we have an interview that Lawrence did with Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel.

It's a pretty fun interview and Lawrence seems genuinely interested and excited to be playing the part of the sexy blue mutant.

Give it a read for yourself and see if you feel better about the casting decision that has been made.

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Enjoy!

“Oh my GOSH! I thought I had a whole year to PREPARE, you know, play the role, wait, and then have the movie come out. Just get used to how big a deal it might be.

“Usually, when you make a movie, there’s just a title and that doesn’t do much of anything for anybody. Even if it’s a Scorsese movie. Nobody knows what that title is about.

“I’ve never done a movie where the title alone makes people go a little crazy.”

How crazy?

“I just got off a plane from London. I was going through Customs, and the guy asks ‘Business or pleasure?’

And I say ‘Business.’

And he says ‘What kind of business?’

And I say ‘Movie. Meetings over a movie.’

And he goes ‘Oh, What movie?’

‘X-Men.’

And he goes ‘Get OUT! They’re doing another X-Men? Oh my gosh, who are going to be?’

‘Mystique.’

‘SHUT UP! Mystique? She’s HOT!’

“And I’m like, ‘Okaay. Can I get through Customs here?’

“I had nooo idea. I have been just ignorant of the whole fan base behind these films. I felt like an idiot. I had to call my mom and go, ‘Mom, I don’t KNOW about all this. This is before we’ve even started shooting, and it’s just CRAZY.’

The starlet, who turns 20 in August, had been surfing the wave that Winter’s Bone put her on back at Sundance when she read for the part. She landed it and THEN decided she’d better bone up on the character.

“When I got the part I dedicated a whole day to watching all three movies, and I really liked them. I was still a little worried, because I didn’t really understand the whole mutant thing. But the script cleared some of my questions up, and knowing that James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender were already on board gave me confidence.”

She had meetings with Vaughn and Co. in London this week. Today, it”s “I have to do 12 hours of prosthetics. Oh man.

“I have to take Mystique back to the beginning, before she became who we saw later. I don’t know exactly what I can talk about, but this is going to be fun.”

She says the prep work is physical, which knowing Mystique’s image, we can believe. Gym time. How does she look in blue?

“NOBODY looks good blue. Well, maybe Zoe Saldana. I am very curious to see how I’m going to come off in that suit.”