January Jones talks about the costumes and powers of Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class, and how she first heard of the project…
Post-production continues on this summer's latest instalment in the X-Men saga, First Class, under the watchful eye of director Matthew Vaughn. And January Jones, who plays Emma Frost in the film, has been chatting to the Los Angeles Times, about the project.
Jones, thus far best known for her role in the outstanding Mad Men, firstly recollected when she first heard of the project. "When I heard that this installment of 'X-Men' was gonna take place in the '60s," she said, "I was like, 'Oh my God, you must be kidding me!' But I read the script and familiarized myself with the character of Emma Frost. She's so, so far from Betty and from 'Mad Men', and it takes place in that time but it doesn't feel like a period movie."
Inevitably, the chat then moved on to the costumes that Emma Frost wears. In the comic books, it's fair to say that, at times, Frost's wardrobe is, er, ‘sparse'. And the film is seemingly following the same path.
"The costumes are insane," Jones confirmed. "It's a lot of very body-conscious stuff. If you look at the comic book, she's barely dressed. She's got quite the bod, which is very intimidating."
However, the actress revealed that she was asked not to work out in preparation for the film, "to maintain a body typical of the period" (that one's a quote from the article, rather than Jones herself, we should add).
Finally, she touched on Frost's mutant powers and how they're being deploying in the film. "I don't have to do all the crazy prosthetics. When I morph into my diamond form, it's all done on computer," she revealed.
"Emma was a bespectacled, mousy child who had this power when she was young that she couldn't quite harness, the telepathy, the mind-twisting stuff. She had a falling out with her father and went her own direction. Fans of the X-Men comics have a very set idea of these characters in their heads. I wanted to know as much as I could about her so I wasn't disappointing anyone. I'm sure I will still disappoint someone. I'm riding around in helicopters, I'm in a boat one day, I'm in all these fight sequences, we're all over the English countryside. I feel like I'm a kid playing mutant."
It's an interesting interview, and it's worth checking it out in its entirety. And you can do so right here.
Meanwhile, X-Men: First Class will be arriving in June.
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