Today we focus our X-Men 3 special on the dutch actress Famke Janssen. Her character Dr. Jean Grey, believed dead at the end of X-Men 2, makes an incredible return. But something has been unleashed inside her, and threatens to wreck havoc on anything standing in its way. Famke Janssen has appeared in films such as 007: Goldeneye, Deep Rising, Rounders, The Faculty, Made, Don’t Say A Word, I Spy and Hide & Seek. She’s been a part of the X-Men series since the first film, released in 2000.

Famke Janssen (Jean Grey/Phoenix)

…on the challenge of her role
This character was extremely challenging to play because there are multiple personalities and because we decided to kind of make her go back and forth between the old Jean Grey - the controlled person - and the new Phoenix.

…on Jean Grey
She’s part Jean Grey and part a lot of other things. She’s just a very instinctual creature with a lot of emotions and very little control over all of those powers.

…on the love triangle
Jean Grey and Logan in the last two films have had a flirtation - have clearly had interest in one another, but the problem’s always been that Cyclops was around and Cyclops was Jean Grey’s fiance. And I think that Jean Grey at the time was very conflicted between the cerebral, normal, calm, collected side of her which Cyclops represented and the more animalistic, instinctual side that Logan represented to her.

…on the story and how it has progressed
In this case we’ve been living with these characters for such a long time that I think we now actually can spend the time really exploring many more things and I think that’s the wonderful thing about this movie is that we’re exploring different relationships between the characters, we’re exploring the limits that we can take in terms of where we take the story and the action and everything has just been… it’s just bigger than it’s been so far, and it’s fantastic.

Be sure to check back daily to find out what the likes of Anna Paquin (Rogue), Ben Foster (Angel), Kelsey Grammer (Beast), James Marsden (Cyclops), Patrick Stewart (Professor X) and director Brett Ratner have to share about X-Men 3.

Official film synopsis: In X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, the final chapter in the “X-Men” motion picture trilogy, a “cure” for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates and alienates them, or give up their powers and become human. The opposing viewpoints of mutant leaders Charles Xavier, who preaches tolerance, and Magneto, who believes in the survival of the fittest, are put to the ultimate test - triggering the war to end all wars.

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