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X-men’s Shawn Ashmore would be interested in playing a gay Iceman

09/12/2015 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

Gay Times Logo8th December 2015

by Josh Withey

This year Iceman, one of the original X-men, came out as gay in Bran Michael Bendis’ superb All-New X-Men #40.

Speaking at the 2015 Game Awards, Shawn Ashmore – who has played Iceman for the last 12 years in the movies – said that it’s one of the most interesting things to happen to the character, and that he’d be interested in playing Iceman again
Shawn told IGN:  “Obviously the comics and movies are separate. I wonder what the transition would be because we’ve sort of established Bobby as having a love interest in Rogue and having a love interest in sort of Kitty Pryde, but I think it’d be really interesting.
“I think it’d probably be the most interesting thing that could happen to Bobby in the films. If they decided to take the story that way, it’d be incredibly dramatic, it’d be an interesting storyline, and it would give Bobby a great character arc. I’d definitely be open to that, but again, I’m not sure if they want to take the character in that direction. I have no idea how they would play that out. I think it’d be very interesting.”
Last month, comic book writer and creator of X-men Stan Lee, discovered that Iceman was gay during a live radio interview.
While appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Stan said: “I wasn’t involved in that, that may have been after I stopped writing the books. I didn’t really have any gay characters. If they were gay I didn’t play up to the fact that they were. I wasn’t aware of my characters sexual proclivities.”
He then admitted: “In fact your telling me that is the first time I’d heard. Is Iceman really gay?

“Wow! I never knew that. I don’t care what happens as long as they tell good stories.”

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: comics, iceman, Marvel, Shawn Ashmore, x-men

BBC Radio 4 broke the news to Stan Lee that his Marvel character Iceman was gay

19/11/2015 By ACOMSDave Leave a Comment

Metro LogoHanna Flint for Metro.co.uk
Wednesday 18 Nov 2015
 
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Marvel Comics chairman Stan Lee didn’t know that one of his own superhero creations was gay.
Bobby Drake, AKA Iceman, was created by and artist Jack Kirby and made his first Marvel appearance in The X-Men #1, September 1963, but in April 2015, in issue 40 of All-New X-Men, writer Brian Michael Bendis decided it was time for him to come out.
On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Lee was informed of this character’s sexuality, and was pretty surprised to hear it.
‘You telling me that, is the first I’ve heard that Iceman is gay, is Iceman really gay?’ he asks. ‘I don’t read the magazines anymore because my eyesight isn’t that good and the print is so small. As I said this is the first time I learned that Iceman is gay.’

Stan added: ‘Wow! I never knew that. I don’t care what happens as long as they tell good stories.’
In the X-Men films, Bobby is been played by Shawn Ashmore and his character has had relationships with both Rogue (Anna Paquin) and Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page).
Maybe if he makes an appearance in X-Men: Apocalypse, Iceman will be romancing one of the X-Men this time around.
 

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: gay character, iceman, Marvel

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