X2

Patrick 'Professor X' Stewart ON "X2" :

"I wouldn't say it's a new exploration ... in many respects I always looked on the first X-Men film as being like a very expensive extended trailer ... we were introducing people to who the X-Men were, to what their world was like, who their enemies were and what their conflicts were going to be like ... "X-MEN 2" is really extending those themes and notions that were just sketched in in the first film, and we're extending them much more deeply. So, there's my continuing conflict with 'Magneto' and with a new enemy, a very, very dangerous individual played by Brian Cox. And, of course, Xavier is attempting to hold the X-Men together and trying to change humankind's perception of what mutants are, which finally climaxes in the movie with a very strong scene in the Oval Office between Professor Xavier and the President of the United States ..."