{"id":62461,"date":"2026-06-21T09:26:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62461"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:26:01","slug":"x-men-star-famke-janssen-say-marvel-made-a-mistake-by-not-including-jean-grey-in-avengers-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62461","title":{"rendered":"X-Men Star Famke Janssen Say Marvel Made a Mistake By Not Including Jean Grey in Avengers: Doomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">X-Men star Famke Janssen has said that Marvel Studios &#8220;made a mistake&#8221; by neglecting to send her an invitation to reprise her role as Jean Grey in <u>Avengers: Doomsday<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The actress, who played the telekinetic Mutant in the 2000s X-Men trilogy as well as follow-up films like Days of Future Past, shared her feelings about the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) at <u>SpaceCon<\/u>. While <u>many of her former castmates<\/u> are confirmed to return, and <u>despite previous reports to the contrary<\/u>, she said she&#8217;s sitting out for this year&#8217;s Avengers movie, whether she likes it or not.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;I am so bad at keeping secrets that I always say to everyone, &#8216;I&#8217;m the worst actor in the world because it&#8217;s all on my face,'&#8221; Janssen said when asked if she was good at keeping secrets amid casting rumors for the new MCU movie. &#8220;You right away will read it. So, I mean, I think they made a mistake, but hey, who am I? I&#8217;m just a little me who thinks that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Janssen&#8217;s Jean Grey has appeared in plenty of pre-MCU comic book movies and is one of the central characters in the X-Men films. When it was eventually confirmed that other X-Men stars like actors like Kelsey Grammer, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden would return for Avengers: Doomsday as Beast, Professor X, Magneto, Nightcrawler, Mystique, and Cyclops, respectively, many believed she would soon put back on her superhero suit, too.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Although she&#8217;s expressed interest in stepping back into the mind of Jean Grey in the past, Janssen has insisted that she will not appear in the superhero team-up film when it premieres this December. She&#8217;s even gone as far as to say that <u>Marvel has &#8220;never ever&#8221; asked her to return<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;I should be flattered, I suppose, that this character has resonated with people,\u201d she said last November. \u201cIt&#8217;s been so long, but it&#8217;s nice that people are still talking about her. I&#8217;m sure every single time there&#8217;s a new movie that they&#8217;re doing, like [is it] Doomsday? &#8230; it&#8217;ll come up again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"\/><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">The Most Surprising Avengers and Marvel Characters Not Announced for Doomsday<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"Despite five hours of streamed casting announcements, there are still several characters and actors fans are surprised won\u2019t be in Avengers: Doomsday. &#10;&lt;br&gt;&#10;&lt;br&gt;&#10;Some we knew about \u2013 such as Elizabeth Olsen\u2019s Scarlet Witch and Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s Doctor Strange \u2013 but the following omissions are notable given the cosmic cross-over nature of what\u2019s shaping up to be an Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four cinematic extravaganza.&#10;\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"\/><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Marvel hasn&#8217;t said why fan-favorite characters like Janssen&#8217;s Jean Grey are being left out of Avengers: Doomsday, but fans surely have some theories. Many <u>believe Sadie Sink is set to play a new version of the character<\/u> in next month&#8217;s <u>Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/u>, for example. Should that theory pan out, it wouldn&#8217;t be a surprise to see her take the reins in Doomsday or another future MCU project, though nothing has been confirmed in that regard quite yet.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Avengers: Doomsday will see Robert Downey Jr. take over as Doctor Doom when it premieres December 18, 2026. While much will be revealed when it finally premieres, Marvel is surely saving some surprises for <u>Avengers: Secret Wars<\/u>, which will arrive one year later on December 17, 2027. For now, those hoping to see Janssen as Jean Grey are better off revisiting films like <u>X2<\/u> and <u>X-Men: The Last Stand<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Photo by Dia Dipasupil\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He&#8217;s best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be sure to give him a follow on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/x-men-star-famke-janssen-thinks-marvel-made-a-mistake-by-not-bringing-her-jean-grey-back-for-avengers-doomsday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-Men star Famke Janssen has said that Marvel Studios &#8220;made a mistake&#8221; by neglecting to send her an invitation to reprise her role as Jean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12890,12891,15908,15907,4076,15909,15906,2933,3194,297,2937],"class_list":["post-62461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-avengers","tag-doomsday","tag-famke","tag-grey","tag-including","tag-janssen","tag-jean","tag-marvel","tag-mistake","tag-star","tag-xmen","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}