Shawn Ashmore

Why would people spend good money to have my pants?

Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities.

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting.

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.

I'm a video game buff.

I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.

Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.