Anna Paquin Out of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

Even though the premiere of X-Men: Days of Future Past is right around the corner, no one cast member is safe from getting fired one way or another. The latest scoop suggests that Anna Paquin (Rogue) has been cut out of the film simply because the presence of too many iconic mutants was becoming a problem. Director Bryan Singer should have thought about that before he invited her to star. Awkward!



Anyway, BBC reports that Paquin's scenes might end up on the DVD extras. I guess that fixes everything!

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Singer told Entertainment Weekly the scene had become "extraneous" and "was just one of the things that had to go".

Paquin, the director said, "completely understood" that "films evolve".

The Usual Suspects film-maker said the True Blood star had done "a fantastic job" in the X-Men sequel, had been "awesome" in the sequence and was "a brilliant actress".

The scene, which took a week to shoot, had seen Paquin appear alongside Sir Ian McKellen's Magneto, Sir Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Shawn Ashmore's younger mutant Iceman.

Singer said the sequence would "probably" feature on the film's DVD and that he would work with Paquin again "in a heartbeat".

"It's very disappointing, but she's very professional and she knows that stuff happens, particularly with material you shoot early on in production."

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[via BBC News]

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