By BANG – Entertainment News
Nicholas Hoult is 鈥渆xcited鈥 to see what Marvel does with Kelsey Grammer鈥檚 Beast in Avengers: Doomsday.
The 70-year-old actor portrayed the mutant superhero in 2006鈥檚 X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past in 2014, and with Grammer set to reprise his role for Marvel鈥檚 upcoming team-up blockbuster, Hoult – who played a younger Beast from 2011鈥檚 X-Men: First Class to Dark Phoenix in 2019 – has now opened up on getting the chance to see Grammer back in action as the character for Avengers: Doomsday.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, the 35-year-old actor said: 鈥淜elsey was a great Beast. He was the Beast I saw when I was a kid.鈥
The Superman star added he was also glad to see Grammer鈥檚 fellow X-Men stars Sir Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Sir Ian McKellen (Magneto) and James Marsden (Cyclops) get the chance to suit up once again for the 2026 Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film.
Hoult said: 鈥淭hose were the characters that I got to watch in X-Men movies. I’m excited to see what they do with it.
鈥淚t’ll be fun to see how they incorporate those characters into that world.鈥
Even so, the Nosferatu actor insisted he would not appear in Avengers: Doomsday as a younger Beast, and bluntly replied, 鈥渘o鈥 when asked if he had been approached by Marvel to reprise his role.
As well as Grammer, Stewart, McKellen and Marsden, other X-Men alums set to reprise their repective roles for Avengers: Doomsday include Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique) and Channing Tatum – who portrayed Gambit in last year鈥檚 Deadpool and Wolverine.
Cumming recently teased he could be fighting Pedro Pascal鈥檚 Mr. Fantastic in the upcoming movie.
During a video interview with Buzzfeed UK, Cumming said: 鈥淚 was learning stunts yesterday for some fight scene and I just think, I鈥檓 60 years old. 23 years ago, I played that superhero.
鈥淚 was kind of old for a superhero even then. And now I鈥檓 back doing it. And that, to me, is hilarious.
鈥淚鈥檓 sort of learning these fights and I鈥檓 like, 鈥榃hat? Who am I fighting with?鈥 And they said, 鈥榊ou鈥檙e hitting Pedro Pascal against the head,鈥 or something.鈥
The actor – who played Nightcrawler in 2003鈥檚 X2: X-Men United – added he was 鈥渁mazed and excited鈥 to be returning as the mutant for Avengers: Doomsday.
Speaking with fellow X-Men alum Olivia Munn for Collider, Cumming said: 鈥淚sn’t it nuts? I’m excited and amazed. It’s been 23 years since I was a superhero.鈥
Cumming also revealed the makeup process for Nightcrawler had been drastically cut down since his last appearance in X2: X-Men United.
He continued: 鈥淚鈥檝e had some makeup tests already for the role, but what’s great about it was that before it was about four and a half hours to apply it, but now it’s only 90 minutes.
鈥淏efore, all of the tattoos were done by hand. They hadn’t decided on them before we started filming. Now, they just stick onto my face. It’s a game changer.
鈥淚’m going back to being a 60-year-old superhero, and everyone seems really lovely.鈥
Avengers: Doomsday will likely see the X-Men, the New Avengers and the Fantastic Four join forces to try to stop the dreaded Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.), who has cataclysmic plans for the Multiverse.