Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul star Giancarlo Esposito has spoken about his interest in playing Professor Xavier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
On the Fade to Black podcast, Esposito gave fans an update on the possibility of him playing Professor X. Though he doesn’t think about it too often, the actor explained that he would like to play a version of the character that isn’t in a wheelchair, as he does not “feel that old” and doesn’t enjoy sitting that frequently.
“Immediately I go, ‘It would be great to play Professor X in some other incarnation than just the wheelchair,’ right? Because the physical idea of being in a wheelchair every single day does not appeal to me,” Esposito stated (via IGN). “I just don’t feel that old and I don’t like to sit that much. But certainly we could figure something out. Maybe. Professor X wasn’t always in the wheelchair, but that is part of his character development. I think about it a little bit, but I don’t give it all of my thought because it would have to come to me.”
Does Professor X always use a wheelchair?
Professor Xavier has spent a good portion of his existence outside of his wheelchair, with even the recent Krakoan era of X-Men stories featuring him without it. The character also appeared both with and without the wheelchair throughout Fox’s X-Men film series, while 2011’s X-Men: First Class showed how that version of Xavier ended up requiring the chair.