Jackman: I'm gonna be devil's advocate because we've had the studio, everyone involved fight over certain characters who are offered the cure. And voluntarily some take it and some don't. And I won't say which characters, I don't want to give away the plot, but well there's a number of characters. But for example we're talking about someone like Rogue. Now Rogue is amazingly powerful as she is, lives a potentially very lonely life, never being able to touch anyone. Never being able to have a relationship, a physical relationship, never being able to have children, never being able to be married. Now it's, as politically abhorrent as some think the cure is, it's also humanely, socially incredibly understandable that a character like that would take it. Now for Wolverine, he's not a political beast in any way shape or form and in the process of this movie I think he starts as someone with very little opinion about the cure except for what it means to him. You know if you want to take the cure take the cure, whatever, I don't give a shit, you do what you want to do and I'm gonna do what I want to do. And he's forced in the course of this movie to actually work out what the cure is politically, socially you know and what his view on it is because the cure ends up being the source of the battle that is going on and what side you're on, you have to eventually take a side and that's what I think is great about this story.

McKellan: I would have to say on the matter of Rogue, it isn't necessarily her particular mutantcy that's her problem it's other people's reaction to it. Maybe society that's wrong not her and the last thing you should do is try and cure it. The first thing you should do obviously is to try and help them and there are many ways of helping people who are handicapped rather than giving them extra limbs or forcing them to be what we think is normal. But that's the argument, that's one of the many arguments that's in this movie along with all these amazing effects and great humor that the characters somehow manage to have through thick and thin. And all the glamour of the story and the bigness of it and that is, I'm just very, very pleased that we can be certain that some young people and maybe older one's too who take comfort in this story because they think it's actually addressing something that is important to them even though it's in this fantastic world of ridiculous costumes and everything else. So I guess that is excellent.

Q: How are the costumes this time around?

Ratner: They are the same with some enhancements.they're pretty close, they're in the world.there are some new characters so they have obviously some new costumes but otherwise, I mean that's why I have to pinch myself sometimes when I have all the X-Men in one room and they're in their X suits and the villains, mostly the villains, they X suits don't look too far out, but when Magneto is in his cape and his helmet and the other character is in a helmet and I'm like, this is so bizarre (laughing), what's going on? I stop for a second and I realize you know what, what's brilliant about this movie and this franchise is that it's all based in reality. And my approach to every scene is that this is really happening, this is really going down. And that's, it's important to me to capture the essence of that and in the performance and in the decision of the sets, the props every single choice informs that, real, real, real, these are real characters, this is really happening because the audience believe that and they want to believe it and we are creating that reality within that frame and it's very important that I do that, and that's my approach to every scene. We figured out and we debated, we were here last night and we were figuring out the nuance on how to throw a punch or how to take a step forward is all based in reality and it's debated. Believe me, I have a lot of work on my plate because these actors definitely have an opinion, they aren't just letting me create my own reality they're saying you know what Magneto wouldn't do that and I'm like Magneto would do that or wouldn't do that and I have to give a reason of why he would or wouldn't. There's a lot of challenging but the better the performance the better the movie, there is no egos involved everyone wants to make a great film and they're the best bunch of actors I've ever worked with and they really care, they really care. It's important to them, their character is important to them from Pyro to Rogue. And I call them by their names not really by accident but because when I'm looking at them I'm looking at Magneto and I'm like Magneto here, Magneto you know and the same with Storm and Logan .

Q: With the new cast was it easy to slip back into these roles this time around or was it a challenge?

Jackman: Easier than the second. But there's always a moment, I said to Brett the first week just to get through it can I watch the monitors with you.after the third day I was like there he is, not that the first week was useless but it took a few days to bring him back on.

Q: For Storm did you do any wire work and physical challenges?

Berry: Wirework, spinning, and I know it seems like a little thing but I've been saying this since the beginning, I just want to fly. Storm flies in the comic books and I've worn this cape for two movies and I've never used it. (laughing) But it really is part of her power, part of what her mutation is and it's nice to get to use that talent and that gift in a real profound way that really helps my fellow characters. I never really got to use sort of the medium of what Storm does. She got to fly a plane but didn't really do what she is supposed to do as an activist.

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