'I've Buried It Deep': X-Men Actor Says He Knew Sony's Spider-Man Spin-Off Kraven Wasn't 'Going Well' During Filming
Marvel’s new X-Men movie star Christopher Abbott has admitted that he knew Sony’s Spider-Man spin-off Kraven the Hunter wasn’t “going well” while on set. The Girls and Catch-22 actor had a small role in Sony’s notoriously-bad Kraven movie, and said it was immediately clear that the film had issues. Speaking via the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, Abbott recalled not knowing what he was doing on set, and basic details of his character being unclear.
“I can s**t talk myself,” Abbott began, saying that he was comfortable critiquing his own performance. “I don’t know what I was doing in that thing. I didn’t understand what the superpower was, I didn’t know what was going on. How to Watch Sony’s Spider-Man Universe in Chronological Order View 10 Images”
“I was like, ‘I take off my glasses and what happens?’ I feel like no one really had a good answer,” he continued. “I don’t know what I was wearing in that thing. I’ve sort of buried it deep down.”
Kraven the Hunter was one of Sony’s various mediocre Spider-Man Universe spin-offs that the studio pumped out while attempting to establish its own cinematic universe. While the Tom Hardy-starring Venom found success (and gained two sequels of varying quality), Sony also launched the Jared Leto-starring Morbius and Dakota Johnson-starring Madame Web before finally deciding it could not continue. Various in-development projects were abandoned over the years, including films centered on minor Spider-Man characters such as El Muerto, Jackpot, and Hypno-Hustler.
“That was a learning curve,” Abbott concluded, reflecting on Kraven the Hunter. “In the moment, I was like... ‘I don’t think this is going well.’
Thankfully, Abbott is being given a fresh crack at the superhero movie genre with a leading role in Jake Schreier’s upcoming X-Men reboot. Officially part of the MCU and a key focus for Marvel post-Avengers: Secret Wars, this new version of the X-Men will feature Abbott as Charles Xavier/Professor X, alongside Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Kit Connor as Scott Summers/Cyclops and Adam Driver as Nathaniel Milbury /Mr. Sinister.