Emma Corrin felt 'pressure' following in Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy’s footsteps

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The actor plays Professor X&#39;s twin Cassandra Nova in Deadpool and Wolverine, and tells Yahoo UK how revisiting the X-Men stars&#39; past work proved stressful.

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00:00You went back to look at Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy's take on Professor X,

00:05to kind of inform your portrayal of their twin, Cassandra.

00:08I wondered, you know, what was it like to follow in their footsteps

00:12and take on that role?

00:13I mean, a lot of pressure.

00:15I really questioned whether I should go back and look at it,

00:17because also it's that thing if you don't want to get too close to something,

00:20so you can't make your own version, but I did find it really helpful.

00:24I was just really curious, and when someone...

00:27Obviously, Cassandra has power through her.

00:29There's probably a word for it that I'm missing,

00:30but, like, gesture, finger, power.

00:33God.

00:34But when it's also so interior, when it's like telepathy and in your mind,

00:38how that has been portrayed before,

00:41because it's so much of an internal world and they do it so beautifully,

00:44so, yeah, I found that really interesting.

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