Today, IGN's own Roth Cornet spoke with Oscar Isaac for A Most Violent Year (more on that soon!), and while she was there she also talked to him about X-Men and assuming the role of Apocalypse in the upcoming sequel. Here's what the actor told IGN about his approach to X-Men: Apocalypse , director Bryan Singer's take on the character,and possible comic book arcs the movie could explore...

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Adapting Apocalypse for the Silver (Gray?) Screen:

“ You read the comic book, and [Apocalypse is] not so shaded with gray -- except his face.

Regardless, Isaac knew what had come before in the X-Men movies and put his trust in Singer. "Just as Bryan's done with the other films, I think he seeks to find something a little more interesting than the archetypal aspects of the characters, which work really well in print, but for a film I think you want to see a bit more of the -- for lack of a better word -- humanity in [Apocalypse]; because ultimately this is a story about humans."

On Archangel and Ben Foster:

A Matter of Time

"It's just different symbols for different things that we feel," he continued. "So with this character I am incredibly interested in the challenge of finding someone that's psychologically interesting and compelling, and actually the spiritual aspects of the character... For me, that's what I'm interested in, in any character that I do. It's a meditation on 'What's their engine? What's their spirit?' Whether that's about Llewyn Davis or Apocalypse, there's an aspect of 'What is it that makes them run? What's their spirit like?' That's what I'm interested in finding out about that character."Of course, one of the major players in Age of Apocalypse in the comics is Warren Worthington III, aka Angel, who later becomes Archangel. In X-Men: The Last Stand, Ben Foster (Lone Survivor, Warcraft) assumed the role of Angel. Isaac is a particular fan of the Archangel storyline, and has been since he was a child. Though it's unlikely, the universe of the X-Men has opened up since Days of Future Past, so when asked if he'd like to see Foster reprise his role in X-Men: Apocalypse, Isaac said he'd be all for it."He's a great actor," Isaac enthused. "I don't really know how they're going to put all that together or exactly what characters, or how that's going to work. But I know Angel and Archangel in particular were some of my favorite characters in that storyline. That was such a cool and dark storyline. I think that would be a cool thing to see on film."Some would argue that Singer's last film, X-Men: Days of Future Past, hit the reset button on a lot of the established cinematic canon (particularly X3). As far as the time and continuity aspects are concerned, Isaac said, "I did like that a lot... There are so many different comics, so many different storylines -- particularly with Age of Apocalypse, how there's this alternate universe. So I like that there's a malleability to what the stories can be."

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"Ultimately, it's about making something compelling and interesting to watch. I think being faithful to certain characters from the comics is very important, but it's a different medium. I think, ultimately, you want to make a great movie. That's the most important part, and then finding, if not the exact details, the soul of the characters, of the stories, of what the whole thing was. Those aspects, even if you're moving certain things around and maybe not being true to this particular storyline and adding this new thing, I think those are much more important. The experience of it will be much more compelling in the end."

X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters stateside on May 27, 2016.

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