Kelsey Grammer Wants to Play Beast Again After X-Men Days of Future Past Cameo

The final sequence in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past featured Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) as he woke up back in the near future after changing history in 1973 to prevent the creation of the Sentinel program and the apocalyptic future. As he strolled the halls of Professor Xavier's school for mutants, he ran into some old friends, including an adult Beast (Kelsey Grammer).

Collider caught up with the actor on the set of Transformers: Age of Extinction to ask him how the cameo happened, and here's what he had to say:

"Actually I called Bryan. I bumped into Hugh Jackman and he said, 'Oh you're gonna be in another X-Men, mate!' and I said, 'No I'm not, I don't know anything about it.' So I made a couple of inquiries, got a hold of the script, found out that it's primarily dealing with the past and that timeline I don't have a place in, but I saw that at the end there was this coda where he made an appearance. I said, 'Listen, I really wanna be involved,' so Bryan arranged for it and I had a lovely time."

The events of Days of Future Past wiped out much of the events of the first several X-Men movies and created a new, more peaceful timeline. Grammer added he wants o return as Beast in this new world if the franchise were to continue down that road.

"I hope to do another," he said. "I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline."

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