Although 2017’s Logan saw Patrick Stewart’s Professor X die at the hands of X-24, just like how that movie didn’t mark the end of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine after all, we’ve been able to see the Star Trek: The Next Generation alum return as the powerful leader of the X-Men. Stewart appeared in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Earth-838’s Charles Xavier, one of the members of that Earth’s Illuminati. However, Stewart has now shared that filming his appearance in the fifth of Phase Four’s Marvel movies in order was “frustrating and disappointing,” though for an understandable reason.
While chatting with Stewart, Happy Sad Confused host Josh Horowitz speculated that we might see the actor reprise Professor X in Deadpool 3, the upcoming Marvel movie where Jackman is making his grand Wolverine return. Stewart admitted it “has come up,” but acknowledged that the last two-three years have “so difficult” when it comes to labor problems and health problems, with him specifically bringing up COVID regarding the latter. As it turns out, COVID also factored into his underwhelming Multiverse of Madness experience, with him saying:
