The vision of Professor X in this film is bitter, lonely and sad, nothing like the sage and optimistic man he once was.
The jam on his bread Patrick Stewart speaks to in Deadline Hollywood’s The Contenders attests to the depth and complexity of the role and why it was so rewarding for the actor.
This Professor X is one who has faced the worst life has to offer and lost, but survived to continue on.
The Charles Xavier in Logan is a far cry from the man we knew in the first two X-Men films or even the one in X-Men: Days of Future Past’s post-apocalyptic future.