{"id":159631,"date":"2025-11-03T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/159631\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:00:07","slug":"famke-janssen-hasnt-heard-from-disney-about-bringing-jean-grey-to-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/159631\/","title":{"rendered":"Famke Janssen Hasn&#8217;t Heard From Disney About Bringing Jean Grey To MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter 25 years, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/famke-janssen\/\">Famke Janssen<\/a> is still synonymous with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/x-men\/\">X-Men<\/a> character of Jean Grey, and she\u2019s still waiting for her invitation to join the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mcu\/\">MCU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDespite several of her co-stars reuniting for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/avengers-doomsday\/\">Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>, the actress revealed she\u2019s \u201cnever ever\u201d spoken to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/disney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Disney<\/a> about potentially bringing back her mutant with psionic powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cEvery time I do an interview, it\u2019s mentioned. It\u2019s interesting,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/famke-janssen-jean-grey-return-marvel-never-ever-asked-11840703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize that was such a big part. Every interview I do, that will come up, and of everything I say, that is going to be the only thing that\u2019s gonna be printed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJanssen continued, \u201cI should be flattered, I suppose, that this character has resonated with people. It\u2019s been so long, but it\u2019s nice that people are still talking about her. I\u2019m sure every single time there\u2019s a new movie that they\u2019re doing\u2026 it\u2019ll come up again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing her last appearance as Jean Grey in X: Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Janssen\u2019s franchise co-stars Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), James Marsden (Cyclops), Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler), Kelsey Grammer (Beast) and Channing Tatum (Gambit) have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/avengers-doomsday-cast-1236351122\/\">signed on to reprise their roles<\/a> in Avengers: Doomsday, premiering Dec. 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirector <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jake-schreier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jake Schreier<\/a>, who is helming <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/marvel-studios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Marvel Studios<\/a>\u2018 X-Men reboot recently <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/jake-schreier-started-work-x-men-reboot-1236498466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">gave an update<\/a>. \u201cI can\u2019t say anything about it, but we\u2019ve started work on X-Men, and that\u2019s obviously very, very exciting,\u201d he told Empire in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 25 years, Famke Janssen is still synonymous with the X-Men character of Jean Grey, and she\u2019s still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[6724,1887,18,117,92829,19,17,5940,327,1894],"class_list":{"0":"post-159631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avengers-doomsday","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-famke-janssen","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mcu","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-x-men"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115483064556200310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}