Hunter Schafer responds to Mystique fan casting after MCU rumour goes viral

24 February 2025, 15:13 | Updated: 6 April 2025, 17:00

By Katie Louise Smith

Hunter saw those viral fan casting posts and she is down to play Mystique in the MCU.

Hunter Schafer as Mystique in the MCU? Immediately yes.

It's now been confirmed that the X-Men will finally be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe with several OG X-Men cast members (Rebecca Romijn! James Marsden! Alan Cumming!) set to star in Avengers: Doomsday.

A "new age of mutants and of the X-Men" are also on the way, per Kevin Feige's recent teases. However, no casting details have been shared about any new X-Men variants just yet.

That said, it hasn't stopped fans (and celebs alike) from sharing who they'd like to see take on those iconic roles, and rumours and fan castings are now starting to fly all over social media.

The latest? A viral rumour claiming Euphoria star Hunter is being eyed to portray the iconic character and fans are obsessed with the thought of her potentially taking on the role. She's also now responded.

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Is Hunter Schafer playing Mystique in the MCU?

Following several viral rumour posts that made their way around social media earlier this year, conversation about Hunter as Mystique has now piqued fans' interests.

While a vast majority of fans are reminding people that the X-Men's MCU debut is probably still several years away and are not getting their hopes up about such an early casting conversation, others are desperate to see her take on the character.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Hunter was asked what she thought about the rumours and fan-castings.

“I did see [the fan casts]! My dad texted me about that, yeah," she said. "Yeah, that would be cool. These fan casts come around every once in a while and it’s always very sweet and always for characters that I really like.”

Hunter has also long been a fan fave to portray Zelda in the upcoming live-action Zelda movie.

Cynthia Erivo is the latest actor to throw their hat in the ring for a role as one of the MCU's X-Men.

Speaking about manifesting her dream role, she told the National Board of Review: "I really want to play Storm. I know it sounds frivolous, but I think we haven't uncovered how grand she is, and all of that inner turmoil that she has, so I think there's a world in which we could do something like that."

So far, the only X-Men character who has popped up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is Hugh Jackman's Wolverine as Deadpool vs. Wolverine is an official MCU entry.

While X-Men's Evan Peters portrayed Pietro Maximoff in Wandavision, it was later revealed that his actual character was a Westview resident called Ralph Bohner, and not the OG Quicksilver.

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