Famke Janssen Talks Strong Female Characters In The X-Men Franchise

SHH managed to talk with Famke Janssen shortly after she finished shooting the upcoming Taken 3, and discovered that her scene in The Wolverine wasn't a reshoot, but a fully planned scene, which she shot before her last interview with the site.

"I'm a really good liar it turns out," she laughed. "By then I'd already filmed it. I was sworn to secrecy that's all. I'm not really keen on lying and I have a lot of problem with people who come into my life and lie, but if I'm forced to do it, it does not come easy. There has been two moments now, with ‘Wolverine' and with ‘X-Men' movies, especially ‘Days of Future Past' where I was sworn to secrecy so I kept my word." "They were deep into filming when they approached me," she admitted. "I had run into James Marsden at various film festivals with films, and we've bumped into one another, but I don't get to see Patrick (Stewart) or any of them as often or frequently as I want to, so whenever we're on set together, it's sort of like a family reunion."

The actress also spoke about the strong female characters in the X-Men franchise, and the love story between Wolverine and Jean.

"That's generally what I find wonderful about these X-Men characters, that there are as many female characters are there male, which doesn't seem to be the case most of the time, I find. A lot of these comic book adaptations aren't necessarily like that a lot of the time—the women's parts are essentially the girlfriends or whatever—so it's really nice to play the scientist, doctor or a strong interesting character. And then we have to really focus on the love story part of it on Wolverine and Jean Grey, and it keeps giving something, especially because it supposedly can't go anywhere, so it becomes even more fun to play around with it. That's thanks to Bryan Singer, he set it up as a universe full of interesting strong women."

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