The Socio-political themes and allegories of the X-Men movies demand that the government plays a part in the stories.
The first film, back in 2000, gave us Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison) and a cameo from Henry Gyrich (Matthew Sharp); the second film saw more of the Senator and a Us president played by Cotter Smith; and the third brought us a new president (Josef Sommer), head of Homeland Security Bolivar Trask (Bill Duke) and Kelsey Grammer's Dr Hank McCoy/Beast as Secretary of Mutant Affairs.
X-Men: First Class needs a political figure too and into that role has stepped Ray Wise, the latest cast member to join the ensemble production.
Wise - who played the vice-president in 24 and The Devil in Reaper - tells IGN: "I'm playing the Secretary of State of the United States. I'll be going over there (to the Pinewood film set) in the next couple of weeks.
The first film, back in 2000, gave us Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison) and a cameo from Henry Gyrich (Matthew Sharp); the second film saw more of the Senator and a Us president played by Cotter Smith; and the third brought us a new president (Josef Sommer), head of Homeland Security Bolivar Trask (Bill Duke) and Kelsey Grammer's Dr Hank McCoy/Beast as Secretary of Mutant Affairs.
X-Men: First Class needs a political figure too and into that role has stepped Ray Wise, the latest cast member to join the ensemble production.
Wise - who played the vice-president in 24 and The Devil in Reaper - tells IGN: "I'm playing the Secretary of State of the United States. I'll be going over there (to the Pinewood film set) in the next couple of weeks.
- 12/2/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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