Shawn Ashmore

I honestly don't feel that this story has been sugar-coated. Obviously you're telling the story of a hero . . . but it stays true to the essence of the run.

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.

Why would people spend good money to have my pants

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened it was a fun day of shooting.

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.

No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.

It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.

I'm a video game buff.

I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Right now I'm looking for the next thing, I'm taking my time finding something that really fits for me, I want to try something different from X-Men.

Obviously I think Vancouver definitely enjoyed our time there, a lot of money was brought into the city, and it was just exciting.

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

I just got Kill Bill Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.

Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.