“It’s just the younger version. I mean, everyone’s a different person when they’re younger. You evolve as a human being with knowledge and attitude and challenges and obstacles in life and so, I feel like the younger-it’s the younger version of Cyclops; why is he the way he is in the first two or three movies that he’s in? What made him that guy? What obstacles did he go through to get to that point? And that’s kind of what I get to explore in this.”
In terms of his relationship with Jean Grey (as played by Sophie Turner in this film) and their romantic development, Sheridan says, “Yeah, it’s developing, for sure, but it’s still, y’know, like I said earlier, you still want to leave some space for these characters to develop and…later on down the road…(laughs) Or just to kind of to mesh into who we know them as in the previous films.”
The film will also delve into the brotherly relationship between Cyclops and Havoc (played once again by Lucas Till), which will be the first time their blood relationship is addressed in the X-films and Sheridan says that he and Till were able to form that bond for the film, "...Me and Lucas have gotten on just like actual brothers and he’s actually got a younger brother in real life and he’s like, 'Dude, you remind me so much of my younger brother.' And there are a few really, really good scenes between Havoc and Cyclops in this one and I feel like I can definitely feel it while we’re shooting."
Sheridan goes on to explain that the elder X-Men mentoring the younger X-Men is symbolic of what the entire film is about, saying, “It’s pretty much about mentors and students. And, the older generation is kind of teaching the younger generation how to become them basically and all these things are explored throughout the movie, especially in the third act.”
so true
