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Impetus<\/a>: Giancarlo Esposito reveals that he has had meetings with Marvel people for a future role, expresses desire to be Professor X<\/span><\/p>\n My knee-jerk reaction to the idea of Gus Fring being Professor X, was absolutely all aboard the train.\u00a0 I get that aside from Captain Picard, the role of Charles Xavier was basically designed to be for Patrick Stewart, but in the age and in light of pursuing change and pursuing the future, I\u2019m hard pressed to imagine anyone more succinctly qualified for the role of Professor X than Giancarlo Esposito.<\/span><\/p>\n Like many, my first real exposure to Esposito was him playing Gus Fring in Breaking Bad<\/em>, and as far as characters go, he\u2019s easily up there as some of my all-time favorites, because I love characters that are cerebral, command respect, and play the long game like a chess grandmaster.\u00a0 I get that throughout his career since, he\u2019s basically been bad guy after bad guy after bad guy, but there\u2019s absolutely no reason to believe that he wouldn\u2019t be capable of playing the cerebral, respect commanding, long game-player like Professor X, plus it\u2019s not like Xavier didn\u2019t make some fucked up choices in his life either.<\/span><\/p>\n Esposito is polished, annunciates intelligently and in the manner you\u2019d expect to hear from Professor X, and has been entrenched in sci-fi\/comics long enough to where it probably wouldn\u2019t feel inorganic or phony on his part when playing the role.\u00a0 There is absolutely zero reason why he wouldn\u2019t make an excellent Professor X.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, to no surprise, there are plenty of people out there that don\u2019t agree with my enthusiasm for the idea of Gus Fring as Professor X.\u00a0 And the funny-not-really-funny thing about the internet and social media and how we\u2019re spoon-fed occasional comments, is when you see the remarks from people you know, and you\u2019re reading words that don\u2019t really sound that intelligent or, in the case of what I saw, were good examples of peoples\u2019 white privilege soaking through the sponge.<\/span><\/p>\n Because in spite of many peoples\u2019 best attempts to try not to be racist but not doing a very good job of doing it, the seemingly number one reason for any sort of opposition of the idea of Giancarlo Esposito as Professor X, really boils down to the fact that he\u2019s not white.\u00a0 I understand that there\u2019s an expectation set by decades of seeing a lily-white Caucasian Professor X in comics and FOX properties, but we live in a world where change is inevitable and is happening very rapidly.\u00a0 But you could go back to 1963 and change the skin tone of Professor X to absolutely any color at all, and it wouldn\u2019t have altered the course of history one bit.<\/span><\/p>\n He’d still have has had his legs crushed by the Shadow King.\u00a0 He still would have gone toe-to-toe with Phoenix on the psychic plane.\u00a0 He still would\u2019ve gotten shot by Stryfe and been the first guy to have the Legacy Virus.\u00a0 He still would\u2019ve mind-fucked hundreds of people and become Onslaught.\u00a0 And so forth and so forth.\u00a0 A black Xavier, Hispanic Xavier, Asian Xavier wouldn\u2019t have changed the course of the character\u2019s history one bit.\u00a0 Just because he was white in six decades worth of comic books doesn\u2019t mean he couldn\u2019t be presented as non-white in what would be at the very most, a series of films.<\/span><\/p>\n But seeing people take shots at his polish, his acting ability and other reasons to criticize the guy when they\u2019re really just objecting to the fact that his skin tone doesn\u2019t match Ben Affleck\u2019s, is insulting and is bullshit.\u00a0 When the day is over, the right performer should be the one to get the role, regardless of the color of their skin.\u00a0 I mean, look at the shitty 2003 Daredevil<\/em> speaking of Ben Affleck.\u00a0 The film was horrendous, but one of the few things they did get right was casting a very black Michael Clarke Duncan as the role of the historically very white Kingpin.\u00a0 Regardless of skin color, Duncan is a tank of a man who commands a room, has swag and is convincingly physically invincible, much like the character he portrayed.\u00a0 Naturally, there was much complaints about that as well, but to its credit it still came to fruition.<\/span><\/p>\n Plus, Patrick Stewart isn\u2019t getting any younger.\u00a0 Y\u2019all remember seeing his cameo in [spoiler redaction<\/strong>]?\u00a0 Eyes all sinking in with age, not entirely sure the wheelchair was just a prop.\u00a0 When he was a layup for the role of Professor X, those Bryan Singer X-Men<\/em> flicks were literally two decades ago.\u00a0 Stewart is 82 years old.\u00a0 Eighty-two<\/em> years old.\u00a0 At the very most, Professor X was probably in his early fifties in the comics, in \u201cpresent\u201d canon.\u00a0 Absolutely no disrespect to Picard.\u00a0 He is the living embodiment of how Professor X was originally portrayed.\u00a0 But my man is getting old.\u00a0 He is old.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t need to be continued to be trotted out, and then get the digital Luke Skywalker treatment.\u00a0 Let the change happen.\u00a0 Change.\u00a0 Is.\u00a0 Needed.<\/span><\/p>\n Hopefully the stiffs at Disney\/Marvel\/ESPN\/FOX will be capable of not caving into their white racist brethren when it comes time to eventually start casting for the introduction of mutants into the MCU, and make the right fucking call: Giancarlo Esposito as Professor X.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Impetus: Giancarlo Esposito reveals that he has had meetings with Marvel people for a future role, expresses desire to be Professor X My knee-jerk reaction to the idea of Gus Fring being Professor X, was absolutely all aboard the train.\u00a0 I get that aside from Captain Picard, the role of Charles Xavier was 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