James Marsden couldn’t be happier to pull his iconic Cyclops visor back on for another on-screen turn as the X-Men hero.
Marsden will return as Cyclops/Scott Summers in the upcoming MCU installment Avengers: Doomsday , and the actor says he’s very “excited” to slip back into the role he first brought to screen in Bryan Singer’s 2000 X-Men film.
“I was excited because you're a part of something gigantic, and I've spent 20 years listening to people say, ‘When are you coming back? When are you coming back? Are you coming back?’ I'm dead. Well, maybe not,” Marsden recently told Vanity Fair .
The 51-year-old actor, who was about 26 years old when X-Men premiered in 2000, joked that he would have had “a tough time struggling to get [back] into costume if they waited a couple mo