First Look: Mystique character trailer for ‘X-Men: First Class’

X-Men:First Class - Mystique

X-Men: First Class - ErikHot on the heels of the three character trailers for Banshee, Havok and Beast released yesterday, Fox has unveiled the latest set of clips from the hotly anticipated comic-book prequel X-Men: First Class, this time for the shape-shifting Mystique.

This clip features the character of Mystique, played as the villain by Rebecca Romijn in the original X-Men films, is the shape-shifting temptress and future hench-person of the big bad Magneto (Michael Fassbender). The young version of the blue Mystique/Raven Darkholme is played by “it girl” Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone), and the clips feature a budding relationship between her and Hank McCoy (aka Beast). We also get a glimpse of the mentor role that Magneto will eventually play in her life.

X-Men: First Class is released in Australia on 2 June 2011 from Fox.

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