We’re less than two weeks away from seeing Nicholas Hoult play Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s Superman, but anyone familiar with the actor knows this isn’t his first time acting in the superhero genre. He previously starred as Hank McCoy,

"Kelsey was a great Beast," Hoult tells Entertainment Weekly in sharing his reaction to the big reveal. "He was the Beast I saw when I was a kid, along with the other actors that they're bringing back, Patrick and Ian and James and all them."

Nicholas Hoult played Beast in four X-Men movies, compared to Kelsey Grammer's two (one of which was just a cameo). Now, the Superman star reveals whether he's got the call for Avengers: