{"id":2357514,"date":"2026-04-03T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2357514"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:47:07","slug":"james-marsden-reveals-what-he-was-worried-about-for-his-big-avengers-doomsday-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/james-marsden-reveals-what-he-was-worried-about-for-his-big-avengers-doomsday-return\/","title":{"rendered":"James Marsden reveals what he was &#8216;worried&#8217; about for his big &#8216;Avengers: Doomsday&#8217; return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2Fjames.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He\u2019s got his eye on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James Marsden will reprise his \u201cX-Men\u201d role as Scott Summers \/ Cyclops in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/26\/entertainment\/marvel-announces-avengers-doomsday-cast-vanessa-kirby-sebastian-stan-chris-hemsworth\/\">\u201cAvengers Doomsday.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was worried that I wasn\u2019t going to be able to do any of this physical stuff, but it all worked out great. I still fit the costume!\u201d Marsden, 52, told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marsden, who was talking to The Post while promoting Season 2 of the AppleTV+ show <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/31\/celebrity-news\/jon-hamm-denies-using-a-butt-double-during-steamy-your-friends-neighbors-season-2-appearance\/\">\u201cYour Friends &amp; Neighbors,\u201d<\/a> originally played Cyclops in 2000\u2019s \u201cX-Men,\u201d when he was 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>James Marsden in 2006\u2019s \u201cX-Men: The Last Stand.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>James Marsden in his video interview with the Post. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Along with the first \u201cX-Men\u201d movie\u2019s stars, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart, he also reprised the role in \u201cX2: X Men United\u201d (2003) and \u201cX Men: The Last Stand\u201d (2006).<\/p>\n<p>About filming \u201cAvengers: Doomsday,\u201d\u00a0 Marsden told The Post that it was \u201cgreat to see my old friends again, and to reunite with Patrick and Ian and Rebecca,\u201d referring to Stewart, McKellen, and Rebecca Romijn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the longest time, I didn\u2019t think it was going to happen,\u201d Marsden told The Post. \u201cI just thought, \u2018okay, well, that\u2019s kind of done\u2026they don\u2019t want the fifty year-old version of me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ian McKellen in 2006\u2019s \u201cX-Men: The Last Stand.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>James Marsden in 2003\u2019s \u201cX Men 2.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>James Marsden at the  \u201cYour Friends and Neighbors\u201d Season 2 Premiere at The New York Historical Society in New York on March 30.  <span class=\"credit\">Johns PKI \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His concerns about his age were alleviated during filming, when he saw that McKellen, 86, was \u201cpushing his stunt double aside going, \u2018let me try!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cParadise\u201d actor was tight-lipped about the plot but said, \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a lot of fun seeing all these worlds come together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of Jackman\u2019s Wolverine, who appeared in the 2024 hit<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/19\/entertainment\/hugh-jackman-calls-out-ryan-reynolds-over-deadpool-amp-wolverine-scene\/\"> \u201cDeadpool &amp; Wolverine,\u201d<\/a> these X-Men characters haven\u2019t been in the larger Marvel world. But the \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d trailer revealed that several of them will be featured in the movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll appear alongside previously announced \u201cDoomsday\u201d stars such as<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/20\/entertainment\/marvel-bringing-back-chris-evans-and-robert-downey-jr-for-avengers-doomsday-is-lazy-and-desperate\/\"> Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoomsday\u201d will be the 39th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a sequel to 2019\u2019s \u201cAvengers: Endgame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d premieres Dec. 18, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s got his eye on it.\u00a0 James Marsden will reprise his \u201cX-Men\u201d role as Scott Summers \/ Cyclops in \u201cAvengers Doomsday.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI was worried that I wasn\u2019t going to be able to do any of this physical stuff, but it all worked out great. I still fit the costume!\u201d Marsden, 52, told The Post.\u00a0 Marsden, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2357515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21741,348136,306271,305487,329537],"class_list":["post-2357514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-ian-mckellen","tag-james-marsden","tag-mcu","tag-the-avengers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/James-Marsden-reveals-what-he-was-worried-about-for-his.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357516,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357514\/revisions\/2357516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}