Thank you Sir Patrick Stewart. Thank you for fully visualizing the role of Professor Charles Xavier on the big screen in multiple X-Men films, including the upcoming release of LOGAN. (Read our spoiler-free review in the link below.)
Once LOGAN hits U.S. theaters on March 3, it will be the very last time you see Stewart in the role as he has told Entertainment Weekly he is officially retiring from the role.
“A week ago, Friday night in Berlin, the three of us sat, watching the movie. And I was so moved by it, much more moved than I had been the first time of seeing it... at one point [Hugh] reached out, and he took my hand in those last few minutes, and I saw him go [mimes wiping a tear from his eye] like this, and then I realized I had just done the same thing. Then, the movie ended… and we were going to be taken up on stage, but not until the credits were over. So, we had some time to sit there and, as I sat there I realized there will never be a better, a more perfect, a more sensitive, emotional, and beautiful way of saying au revoir to Charles Xavier than this movie. So, I told [Hugh] that same evening, ‘I’m done too. It’s all over.'”
Now I'm wiping a tear from my eye.
Stewart was Professor X in X-MEN, X2: X-MEN UNITED, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, X-MEN ORIGNS: WOLVERINE, THE WOLVERINE, X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST and LOGAN.
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