Puntabulous

In THIS interview with Dark Horizons, the cast of X-Men 3: The Last Stand discuss the possibility of a cure for the Mutant X gene.

Ian McKellen: Well, there aren’t many [gay people] in Hollywood [laughs]. But there are people who think gay people can be cured, so my reaction to that, that I can be cured as a mutant, is contemptuous, that people think I need curing for my sexuality. The idea that black people can take a pill that would cure them of being black is absolutely appalling to me. I’d like to hear of any character in this film who thinks this cure is a good idea, but there are some and they argue the case. It’ll get you worked up, this movie, and so it should. I don’t think people should be cured of their god-given nature.

Hugh Jackman: I’m going to be devil’s advocate, because we’ve had the studio, everyone involved, fights with certain characters that are offered the cure. And voluntarily some take it, some don’t. And I won’t say which character cause I don’t want to give away the plot. There’s a number of characters, but we just, for example, were talking about someone like Rogue. Now Rogue, as amazingly powerful as she is, lives a potentially very lonely life. Never being able to touch anyone, never being able to have a physical relationship, never being able to have children, never being able to be married. Now, as politically abhorrent as somehow the cure is, it’s also humanely and socially, incredibly understandable that a character like that would take it.

Openly gay actor Ian McKellen is appalled by the idea of a cure, while Hugh Jackman plays devil’s advocate.

Just sayin’.