Continuing to cast every student in Professor Xavier’s (James McAvoy) school, news (from Deadline) reaches us of another actor joining Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class. Edi Gathegi, who was last seen as the dreadlocked Laurent in Twilight, is set to play Darwin, a mutant who gains the power of “reactive evolution”. In the comics Darwin, the first bi-racial character of the series, is able to adapt to his surroundings, growing gills if submerged in water.
Garthegi, who also appeared in Gone Baby Gone and has a recurring credit on TV’s House, has just finished production on Paul Johansson’s Atlas Shrugged, an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novel of the same name.
X-Men: First Class is currently being redrafted by frequent Vaughn collaborator Jane Goldman. Already enrolled in the class of X:Men 2011 are Magneto (Michale Fassbender), Emma Frost (Alice Eve), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Havoc (Lucas Till), Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones) and an undisclosed villain (Kevin Bacon).
Reported by Steven Neish
