James Mcavoy Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets


29th May 2016

Quote: "Every time I've played Charles (Xavier), I've gotten to do a slightly different thing, which has been satisfying and challenging for me. So if that continues to happen and I continue to have the opportunity to do interesting things as an actor, I'll jump at the chance. If it gets stale, if it gets to be the same thing as I did last movie, I'd think twice about it. We'll wait and see what Simon (Kinberg) comes up with. He always writes interesting stuff for me. I'm guessing I'll come back." James McAvoy discusses the possibility of returning to the X-Men superhero franchise, after his third outing as Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men: Apocalypse.


15th November 2015

Quote: "I have been asked if I faked it (orgasm), and I was like, 'Really? Was it that underwhelming?'" Scottish actor James McAvoy recalls one of his worst sexual experiences.


14th November 2015

Quote: "James is very good at that and I, in my career, have played a lot of characters that get beaten up, so I'm very good at getting fake-beaten up... I'm a very willing body... We just got into it." Daniel Radcliffe admits the fight scenes between himself and James McAvoy in Victor Frankenstein were really physical.


12th October 2015

Fact: British actors James McAvoy and Hugh Laurie are set to perform in a radio play series on BBC Radio 4 called Unmade Movies, featuring recreations of movie scripts which never made it to screen. James will star in Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness, and the former House star performs in Alfred Hitchcock's abandoned project The Blind Man. The series begins on 17 October (15).


10th May 2015

Fact: James McAvoy has gone bald to portray Professor X in the upcoming X-MEN: APOCALYPSE movie. Director Bryan Singer revealed the star's new look on Instagram.com on Friday (08May15) when he shared a photo of MCAvoy with his freshly-shorn head, finally ditching his shaggy locks to adopt his comic book character's signature look. He simply captioned the shot, "Xavier reborn". The Scottish actor plays a younger version of the mutant superhero previously played onscreen by Sir Patrick Stewart.


18th June 2014

Fact: Scottish actor James McAvoy has been unveiled as the face of luxury fashion brand Prada. The X-Men: Days of Future Past star fronts the house's autumn/winter 2014 menswear campaign in black and white shots taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz.


1st May 2014

Quote: "If you could spend four hours with me and I could get you drunk, I'd be top of that poll!" Actor James McAvoy insists his placing of 16th in a magazine's poll of the world's sexiest male stars was unfair.


18th March 2014

Fact: Homeland's Damian Lewis, Scottish film star James McAvoy and Doctor Who actor Matt Smith are among the celebrities who have been recruited for Robbie Williams' annual Soccer Aid event in England in June (14).


26th July 2013

Fact: Wanted star James McAvoy is to team up with fellow young Brit Daniel Radcliffe for the latest movie adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Sources tell Deadline.com that MCAvoy will play Dr. Frankenstein, while the Harry Potter star will portray his hunchbacked assistant Igor in director Paul MCGuigan's new film.


9th June 2013

Fact: X-Men stars Nicholas Hoult and James McAvoy took a break from filming Days of Future Past in Montreal, Canada on Sunday (09Jun13) to attend the city's Formula 1 Grand Prix. The pair was spotted on the starting grid chatting to the top drivers and their teams.


1st April 2013

Quote: "I was a bit gutted because I was keen to be regressed or turned into a chicken or something, but it didn't happen. I went with it for about 10 minutes but then I was like, 'I need a pee and to scratch my leg. This isn't working mate. I'm sorry.'" Actor James McAvoy on trying out hypnosis as research for his new film Trance.


28th March 2013

Quote: "We were playing Words With Friends, which is like an online Scrabble game, in between shots. 'We'd be doing these really intense scenes and then as soon as it cut, I'd be like, 'Ok, your turn!'" Rosario Dawson enjoyed playing word games with her Trance co-star James McAvoy in between takes.


25th February 2013

Quote: "I'm not orange down there. I've had people ask do I dye my top, but I don't. I don't know why it's orange, but I dig it, I like it." Scottish actor James McAvoy on his new red-flecked beard, which he has grown to play Macbeth in a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's famous tragedy in London.


19th December 2012

Fact: Hugh Jackman has become the latest star to join the cast of the new X-Men film. The Australian actor will reprise his role as superhero Wolverine in X Men: Days Of Future Past along with his former co-stars Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian MCKellen, and recent additions to the franchise James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender.


26th December 2011

Quote: "I think he's a more innocent Harry. I think I'd love Harry. He's a proper, man. He's like, 'I'm never gonna be the king, it's cool.'" Actor James McAvoy reveals the inspiration for his character in Arthur Christmas was British royal Prince Harry.


9th August 2011

Fact: Wanted star James McAvoy will play a drug addicted Scottish police officer in Jon Baird's movie adaptation of author Irvine Welsh's acclaimed book Filth. Fellow Brits Jamie Bell and Alan Cumming will also feature in the film. Welsh will co-write the screenplay with Baird and produce the project.


1st June 2011

Quote: "You're never more than three feet away from one. There's not much work for Scottish actors in Scotland so we end up coming here." James McAvoy explains the high numbers of Scottish stars in Hollywood.


29th May 2011

Quote: "It was mostly just fun. I don't remember us working. I just remember us cracking up on set." Actress Jennifer Lawrence had a ball while filming X-Men: First Class with co-stars James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender.


8th April 2011

Quote: "He shouts and tells you to stop being f**ing bad. Matthew is very ready to tell you in no uncertain terms, with expletives added, that you're being f**king s**t." James McAvoy was on the receiving end of director Matthew Vaughn's rants on the set of new blockbuster X-Men: First Class.


14th February 2011

Quote: "I first became aware of it when I started auditioning for things. I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. I think some of it is in my bones." Scottish actor James McAvoy was born charming.


27th January 2011

Quote: "The hardest thing about being a dad in this business... the best way for me to be a good dad is not to talk about him. I'm so sorry. I realise that you guys are the people to talk to about babies... Thanks for understanding." Scottish actor James McAvoy is determined to keep his baby son, with wife Anne-Marie Duff, out of the spotlight.


25th January 2011

Quote: "Professor X is not too combat-savvy in this film, it has to be said. He doesn't do too much, he's sort of a consultant with the combat guys. But he does get involved in a few little bits of fisticuffs. I wouldn't say that he comes out well but I wouldn't say that he gets his a** kicked either." Actor James McAvoy stayed away from the fight scenes in X-Men: FIRST CLASS as mutant leader Professor Xavier.


18th August 2010

Fact: January Jones has become the latest addition to the all-star cast of upcoming comic book prequel X-Men: FIRST CLASS. The MAD MEN star will play super-mutant Emma Frost opposite actors including Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon and Zoe Kravitz.


29th June 2010

Fact: British actress Alice Eve is in talks to join James McAvoy the upcoming X-Men prequel. The Sex and the City 2 star has her sights set on playing Emma Frost in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, which will follow the Marvel comic book superheros in their younger days.


17th May 2010

Quote: "There's every chance I will. I'm dying to." Scottish actor James McAvoy is desperate to land a role on Broadway.


28th April 2010

Quote: "There's Ryan Gosling and then there's James McAvoy. They're both really good. I watch them on different chat shows to see what they're really like." Rocker Courtney Love is dissecting the actors' behaviour before assigning the coveted role of her late husband Kurt Cobain in a new biopic.


22nd February 2010

Quote: "When a mate saw it, he walked out of the cinema halfway through just to tell me I looked like a prat. I liked the film but it wasn't his thing." James McAvoy's friends weren't impressed with his turn in 2005 film The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.


9th February 2010

Quote: "If you see an actress weighing over eight stone being cast for anything, it's considered totally 'out there' cinema - which is ridiculous." James McAvoy is glad he doesn't have to deal with the pressures of being a female actress.


5th January 2010

Quote: "My relationship with fashion is shaky and sketch (sic) at best - I manage, at the behest of my friends and advisers, to get a shirt and jacket on when I go to fancy events such as film festivals and premieres, but, if I was left to my own devices, I think I'd end up looking pretty shoddy." Scottish actor James McAvoy has no interest in designer clothes.


18th August 2009

Fact: James McAvoy is battling cancer for his next role - he will play a young victim who fights the disease throughout his 20s. The untitled movie is based on the life of screenwriter WILL REISER, and will be produced by Seth Rogen.


27th April 2009

Quote: "I've kissed plenty of handsome fellas in my work, too. Michael Caine for one." Anne-Marie Duff insists she isn't jealous her actor husband James McAvoy has shared love scenes with Angelina Jolie.


9th February 2009

Quote: "I went to drama school knowing I could do angry young working-class men from Scotland. And I thought, 'I'll probably come out being able to do that better, and I can play angry young rent boys or hooligans.'" James McAvoy feared his heavy Scottish brogue would keep him from winning Hollywood roles.


6th November 2008

Fact: Scottish actor James McAvoy is to receive a Fellowship from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow - his former drama school. The WANTED star will be honoured at a graduation ceremony on 20 November (08).


6th August 2008

Quote: "I haven't met him yet, but I cried when I found out he was married. Literally." Julia Roberts' actress niece EMMA has a crush on British star James McAvoy.


21st July 2008

Quote: "There was someone I worked with recently who, within five minutes, displayed all the attributes of a f***ing d**k, and I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Weeks later I was still there, going, 'You're so f***ing self-obsessed.' I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt and I'm tired of it." Actor James McAvoy refuses to indulge his egomaniacal co-stars.


9th July 2008

Quote: "I like romantic comedies. I've been in one and I f**king loved it. I got to show off and I got to be a d**k. It's always fun to play d**ks. That's why I loved LAST KING (OF SCOTLAND) - I got to be such a w**ker." James McAvoy.


8th July 2008

Quote: "There was someone I worked with recently who, within five minutes, displayed all the attributes of a f**king d**k, and I gave them the benefit of the doubt. Weeks later I was still there, going, 'You're so f**king self-obsessed.'" James McAvoy isn't enamoured with all his co-stars.


7th July 2008

Quote: "They took months and months to acquire and about two weeks to lose, which was very disheartening." Actor James McAvoy admits he no longer has the toned six pack he trained so hard for for action movie WANTED.


24th June 2008

Quote: "Just another day and the same old s**t as usual. 'Oh God, I hope she doesn't think I'm getting off on this and I hope she doesn't think I'm trying to... whatever.' And she's doing the same. So it's always weird. Always strange, never nice." Actor James McAvoy on the unromantic business of love scenes.


20th June 2008

Quote: "I was told stories by her bodyguard of people running across freeways to take a picture of her. And that's never gonna happen to me. Unless I'm kissing Bill Clinton at that time. Which I don't think I'm gonna do. I hope." Atonement star James McAvoy doesn't forsee ever being stalked by paparazzi like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, unless he has a sordid fling with a well-known celebrity.


19th June 2008

Fact: Actor James McAvoy and wife Anne-Marie Duff have shunned the flash cars usually favoured by Hollywood stars - the couple owns a ten-year-old Nissan Micra.


29th April 2008

Quote: "I'm tired now. Fancy stopping for a while and just sitting in my house. If I make too many movies people will get sick of me!" ATONEMENT star James McAvoy on his plans to take a break from his hectic movie-making schedule.


26th April 2008

Quote: "I don't think this is actually a translation of the comic book in any way. For starters, the comic-book drawings quite clearly show that my role is played by Eminem and ANGELINA (JOLIE)'s by Halle Berry." Actor James McAvoy insists his new movie WANTED is not a faithful adaptation of MARK MILLAR's comic book of the same name.


25th April 2008

Quote: "A lovely woman, not at all the vixen people think, but really rather experienced at this stuff." James McAvoy on his WANTED co-star Angelina Jolie.


2nd April 2008

Quote: "I don't get too many awards - I tend to lose out to younger, more talented, better-looking guys like James McAvoy." Matt Damon on collecting the Empire magazine film award for THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM.


11th March 2008

Quote: "ANGELINA kicked seven colours of poo out of me, but thankfully, I'm in one piece." Actor James McAvoy admits there was a downside to starring alongside Hollywood beauty Angelina Jolie in WANTED.


3rd March 2008

Quote: "(I thought about it) for about five minutes and then I quickly realised in order to become a Catholic priest, one would have to give up conjugal rights." James McAvoy on his one-time religious ambition.


28th February 2008

Quote: "I think I was an okay kind of colleague, simply because I'd been through the same nasal obstruction stuff on Narnia." Actor James McAvoy empathised with PENELOPE co-star Christina Ricci, who had to wear a fake pig's nose for the film, as he also had to don a prosthetic nose in THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA.


13th February 2008

Quote: "I didn't know who he was. Of course, he's become this big movie star now and I tease him and say, 'I got you when you were cheap!' It's not gonna happen again, I'll never get him again." Reese Witherspoon on casting ATONEMENT star James McAvoy in her new film PENELOPE.


11th February 2008

Quote: "I'm presenting one - that's scary enough! I hate the getting dressed up thing. I don't like being flashy. I drive a Nissan Micra." ATONEMENT star James McAvoy insists he is glad he hasn't been nominated for an Oscar - because presenting an award is nerve-wracking enough.


2nd February 2008

Quote: "Anything to do with Satan worship is scary for some reason. I was brought up a Catholic, and while I'm not particularly Catholic now, I bear the marks of one." Scottish actor James McAvoy fears devil worshippers.


22nd January 2008

Fact: Martin Scorsese, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Day-Lewis, George Clooney, Marion Cotillard, James McAvoy and JUNO star Ellen Page turned the 11th annual Newsweek Oscar Roundtable discussion into a star-studded affair when the sextet gathered for a low-key chat about film and fame at Los Angeles' UCLA campus. The debate is available on Newsweek magazine's website.


17th January 2008

Quote: "I've already hooked up with the only chick of my dreams, man... I'm more than made up... (I knew she was the one because) the world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more." ATONEMENT star James McAvoy on his marriage to actress Anne-Marie Duff. The couple wed in 2006.


16th January 2008

Quote: "I've heard that if I go, they'll happen." Scottish actor James McAvoy jokes a vote for him in ATONEMENT will prompt striking Hollywood writers to give Oscars organisers a waiver, and allow them to press on with the Academy Awards.


9th January 2008

Quote: "I can do you a really nice butterfly bun or a lovely gateau." ATONEMENT star James McAvoy on the baking skills he honed before hitting the big time as an actor.


13th December 2007

Quote: "This town isn't going to know what hit it! I'm going wild tonight! And if I see any of Keira's competition, I'll break their legs." Scottish star James McAvoy plans to celebrate his Golden Globe Awards Best Actor nomination by attacking fellow nominee and ATONEMENT co-star Keira Knightley's rivals.


10th December 2007

Quote: "Being there while Keira Knightley was being told to w**k me off was a high point." Actor James McAvoy's favourite moment filming ATONEMENT was hearing his co-star receiving instructions while shooting their sex scene.


8th December 2007

Quote: "Obviously, I'm not six-foot-five, olive-skinned and built like a brick s**thouse, and whilst not being ugly, I don't think I'm a matinee idol." British actor James McAvoy mulls over his appeal.


4th December 2007

Quote: "My wife did laugh her head off. She found it hilarious." THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND star James McAvoy on being named People magazine's fifth sexiest man alive.


13th September 2007

Quote: "I don't want to call her a liar, but, between Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, I don't know." Actor James McAvoy is flattered by ATONEMENT co-star Keira Knightley's comments about his kissing skills.


29th August 2007

Fact: LAST KING OF SCOTLAND star James McAvoy spent two years as an in-store baker at British supermarket chain Sainsburys while trying to find acting work in London.


20th March 2007

Quote: "I'd love to play Andrew McCarthy's son, or brother, in a movie. He might be a bit p**sed off if he hears me say that." THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND star James McAvoy on his likeness to Pretty In Pink star MCCarthy.


15th March 2007

Quote: "It's very comfortable and very frilly. I wear it as a nightgown." James McAvoy on his favourite shirt, a souvenir from the BECOMING JANE set.


5th March 2007

Quote: "I love wearing that type of stuff. I love the fact it keeps you all kind of held and bound. I think it's a great style - it's a great period for men's fashion." James McAvoy was delighted by the costumes he had to wear for his role in BECOMING JANE.


5th March 2007

Quote: "I love wearing that type of stuff. I love the fact it keeps you all kind of held and bound. I think it's a great style - it's a great period for men's fashion." James McAvoy was delighted by the costumes he had to wear for his role in BECOMING JANE.


4th March 2007

Quote: "The country has made my career, made Forest Whitaker's career, the director Kevin Macdonald's career. Every crew member and every cast member has had about three leg-ups the career ladder because of the film." James McAvoy, on the impact of THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, about Uganda under Idi Amin's rule.


19th February 2007

Fact: The cast of Oscar-tipped THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND returned to location in Uganda for the movie's African premiere last night (18FEB07). Forest Whitaker and James McAvoy were welcomed in capital city Kampala by a troupe of local dancers and drummers for the opening night of the Idi Amin biopic.


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