Spoiler warning: this post contains spoilers for All-New X-Men #40!
X-Men: Apocalypse director Bryan Singer has weighed in with his thoughts on the reveal that founding X-Men member Iceman is gay.
"I'm glad," Singer said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. "I'm sure it's very good for
."
"I think it is interesting that in the early movies he develops a relationship with a girl who he is physically unable to touch. There’s something subtextual in that," he continues, referring to the character's relationship with Rogue (Anna Paquin). "I’m not sure if I necessarily intended it at the time, but there is something ironic about it in the first and second film... And in the third one, which I didn’t direct, Iceman develops a relationship with Kitty Pryde, which I did address in Days of Future Past, and which is even more coincidental because Ellen Page recently came out as gay. So it puts an even more humorous spin on the whole thing."
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X-Men: Apocalypse director Bryan Singer has weighed in with his thoughts on the reveal that founding X-Men member Iceman is gay.
"I'm glad," Singer said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. "I'm sure it's very good for
."
"I think it is interesting that in the early movies he develops a relationship with a girl who he is physically unable to touch. There’s something subtextual in that," he continues, referring to the character's relationship with Rogue (Anna Paquin). "I’m not sure if I necessarily intended it at the time, but there is something ironic about it in the first and second film... And in the third one, which I didn’t direct, Iceman develops a relationship with Kitty Pryde, which I did address in Days of Future Past, and which is even more coincidental because Ellen Page recently came out as gay. So it puts an even more humorous spin on the whole thing."
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