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Shawn Ashmore
Canadian
Actor
About the author
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Fantasy
#Magic
The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#First
#Excitement
There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Rumors
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.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Will
Why would people spend good money to have my pants?
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#People
#Money
So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
You get bored if you do the same thing too much.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
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.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Love
#End
#Past
#Months
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.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Character
#School
I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Love
#Career
#Music
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.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Talk
#People
#Fun
#Day
#Being
#Kisses
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.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Action
#Care
#Waiting
Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Style
#Attitude
#Personality
#Reflection
I'm a video game buff.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
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.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Now
#Life
#Career
I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Fun
#Play
Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Play
#Pretty
#Job
Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Day
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Books
#Mother
#Brother
#Growing up
Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Being
As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#School
Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Time
#Life
#People
#Work
I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Ability
#Power
#Control
#Water
Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Character
Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#First
I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#People
#Fashion
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.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.
Shawn Ashmore,
Canadian
Actor
#Being
#School