James McAvoy says Charles Xavier hates Magneto in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'

James McAvoy is back as a young Charles Xavier in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past, which hits U.S. theaters on May 23. The film will build on the events of X-Men: First Class, as well as the original films, as the two groups of mutants interact through time travel.

In an interview with IGN on the set of the movie, McAvoy unloaded a ton of information about the movie and revealed that the relationship between young Professor X and young Magneto (Michael Fassbender) is...let's say strained.

"Yeah, well, it's pretty dire, their relationship, to put it softly. I'd go so far as to say that Charles f#@king hates him," McAvoy said. "And it's about exploring the things that were built up in Bryan's previous movies with Patrick [Stewart] and Ian [McKellen], about these two people who were obviously on a very similar path at one point, and then some mega s#!t went down. And now they find themselves as adversaries. Well, this movie and the end of the last movie is an exploration of that s#!t that went down. But again, they are in lots of ways very, very similar. They can't help but relate to each other, be drawn to each other, because they should be friends. It's just the fact that they come from different camps, and they have slightly different approaches to getting the same thing."

McAvoy also expressed that this movie feels more like X-Men than First Class did because of the huge cast of characters.

"Yes, this one feels more X-Men-y -- it feels like the other X-Mens which came before, just by virtue of the fact that we have all of those [original] guys in it. And we have the director of the first two, which is fantastic," he said. "This is a coming together of the two, not universes because they are of the same universe, but of two different approaches to the same universe. So whilst not abandoning all the stuff we tried to find in the last movie, it's very much a conversation with the aesthetic and the tone of the other movies as well. And hopefully those two tones will complement each other."

For plenty more information from the actor, check out the rest of the quite lengthy interview here, in which McAvoy reveals that he and Patrick Stewart discussed Macbeth on set.

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