Shawn Ashmore
Shawn Ashmore
Shawn Robert Ashmoreis a Canadian film and television actor. He is known for his roles as Jake in the television series Animorphs, Agent Mike Weston in the television drama series The Following, and Bobby Drake / Iceman in the X-Men film series. Ashmore also plays the main character, Jack Joyce, in the 2016 video game Quantum Break. He is the identical twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 October 1979
CityRichmond, Canada
CountryCanada
One of the things I was really concerned about was having enough time to train and get the physical aspects of the character down. For Canadians especially, it's such an important image to all of us, it's something that's very recognized. I just wanted to make sure that I had time to do that properly, because if that wasn't right, then people would not necessarily be able to connect.
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.
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.
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.
We were out in the country running for a lot of the shoot,
Thank goodness for me this technology exists, because it's the only way that his story would get told like this.
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.
I didn't discover Terry until I was 10 years old, he was a legend by that time,
Obviously I think Vancouver definitely enjoyed our time there, a lot of money was brought into the city, and it was just exciting.
Right now I'm looking for the next thing, I'm taking my time finding something that really fits for me, I want to try something different from X-Men.
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.
It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.
I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.
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.