I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.