Box Office Mojo: Corny Collins in Hairspray is your first musical role since you played Hugo Peabody in a high school production of Bye Bye Birdie. What's the easiest part of being in a musical?
James Marsden: It's probably easier to answer what the hardest part isthere are so many easy things about it, for me anyway. When you throw yourself into a musical like Hairspray, [you get that] sort of high energy, colorful [show] with ridiculous costumes and I find the more extreme you take it, the easier it is. If you're singing and dancing, it gives you less time to be neurotic about the acting. Maybe it's because I was so excited to finally do a musical that I enjoyed every minute of it. On every job I've ever done, like with the cast from X-Men, the actors were always saying [to me]: 'when are we going get you on stage doing a musical or something?' I remember Hugh Jackman saying, 'mate, you've got to do a musical.' He actually wanted me to play his love interest in [the Broadway musical] Boy from Oz and there was a scheduling conflict or something. But I would have loved to have done it.
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Box Office Mojo: Will you appear in another Superman picture?
James Marsden: I hope so. I don't know if Warner Bros. is doing it for sure.
Box Office Mojo: Is there a superhero you'd like to play?
James Marsden: Nothing comes to mind. I think I've done that.
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Box Office Mojo: What's the reaction to your character's demise in X-Men: The Last Stand from Cyclops fans?
James Marsden: They didn't like it. Most fans come up and say Cyclops never got his due. I don't want to be the person in an ensemble film complaining and whining and I always knew the [plot] outcomebut I do think Cyclops was low man on the totem pole. People do like that character and that makes me feel good.