Hitfix.com had the opportunity to interview Lucas at the X Men: First Class DVD launch, where he shared some of his thoughts on his character Alex Summers/Havok
Till’s biggest problem in playing Havok was apparently trying to look cool while shooting plasma blasts out of his chest – pretty small potatoes compared to his co-stars, if you ask me.
“The first time when I blow up the statue, I remember…practicing in my hotel room, looking in the mirror, like ‘Oh, what is that gonna look like? Oh yeah, that’s better-looking’,” he recounted as he feigned staring at his reflection. “And then throw that out the window when [John] Dykstra shows me the pre-vis, and it’s like these rings coming out of my body, and I’m [like] ‘okay…’ And then Matthew’s like ‘Now, imagine hula hoops are coming out of your body’. And I was like ‘I wanted to be a superhero my entire life, and you’re gonna make me do a hula hoop dance.”
Nevertheless, Till was ultimately happy with the on-screen results.
“It just turned out so well, you know? It’s something i can really be proud of,” he said, before adding about a possible sequel: “But I would say…I’d like Hank to make me some gauntlets or something [in the sequel] so I can shoot out of my hands…I think it would be cool.”
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