Yahoo News Dark Phoenix's Jessica Chastain breaks studio rules by revealing her mysterious X-Men role
The momentum for X-Men: Dark Phoenix isn't exactly building, so one of its stars Jessica Chastain is throwing caution to the wind by breaking studio rules ahead of its release.
(We love you, Jessica.)
Jessica – who had a mysterious role in the X-Men universe – let a secret about her character slip while chatting on tonight's (May 24) Graham Norton Show.
Thankfully, the actress didn't give the game away entirely, as she admitted to playing "an other-worldly creature".
"I was told I am not allowed to say that I play an alien, but basically I play an alien," she added.
Related: Why Dark Phoenix is tracking to make lowest X-Men box office debut yet
Chastain also revealed the inspiration behind her take on the Dark Phoenix "alien", explaining that Tilda Swinton is her muse for anything out-of-this-world. A solid choice.
"I am a shape shifter, so I am supposed to look like an elevated form of a human being," Jessica said. "The one person I think of that way is Tilda Swinton. I'm not convinced she's a human being. I think she is ruling over some planet somewhere like the goddess she is."
Even with Tilda-inspired characters and an impressive cast fronted by Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner, X-Men: Dark Phoenix might just end the franchise on a bit of a downer.
Despite being billed as a "culmination" of the series, it's predicted that Dark Phoenix is likely to land the lowest US box office opening of the series to date.
The Graham Norton Show will welcome Jessica, Sophie Turner, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, and Taylor Swift tonight at 10.35pm on BBC One.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix is released in UK cinemas on June 5 and US cinemas on June 7.
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