One good role deserves another which is why Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) has cast young actress Jennifer Lawrence, coming off an acclaimed performance in the indie flick Winter’s Bone, in Fox’s X-Men: First Class.
Lawrence will play Mystique, the blue shape-shifting mutant whom aligns with Magneto to fight against the X-Men and non-mutant humans. Rebecca Romijn made the character one of the more memorable from the X-Men trilogy with her sexy yet deadly portrayal.
The burgeoning youthful X-Men: First Class cast now includes James McAvoyas Professor Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr aka Magneto, Alice Eve as Emma Frost, Nicholas Hoult as Beast, and Caleb Landry Jones as Banshee. Kick-Ass himself Aaron Johnson is rumored to be up for the role of Cyclops.
Source: THR
