Rogue actress Anna Paquin has been cut from May's upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past!
Despite being one of the main entry characters for audiences into Bryan Singer’s version of the X-Men Universe, Anna Paquin’s Rogue will be missing from the “reunion” film that is X-Men: Days of Future Past, because Singer revealed Sunday that she has been cut from the part.
While speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the once and future director of all things mutant disclosed that Rogue (Paquin) was only scheduled to appear in one scene, and due to the process of editing the movie for a certain length and pace, that scene has been deleted from the final film.
“Through the editing process, the sequence became extraneous,” Singer told EW. “It’s a really good sequence and it will probably end up on the DVD, so people can see it. But like many things in the editing process, it was an embarrassment of riches, and it was just one of the things that had to go. Unfortunately, it was the one and only sequence Anna Paquin was in, the Rogue character was in. Even though she’s in the materials and part of the process of making the film, she won’t appear in it.”
However Singer stressed that it has nothing to do with the actress’ work in the scene, as she was at one point a crucical part of his vision in the original 2000 X-Men. “She did a fantastic job,” Singer insisted. He also said she understood the decision as a creative one. Perhaps he can make amends with a bigger part in X-Men: Apocalypse...
X-Men: Days of Future Past is released on May 23, 2014.