{"id":24288,"date":"2015-06-29T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=24288"},"modified":"2015-06-29T13:54:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T20:54:37","slug":"x-men-apocalypse-olivia-munn-practicing-sword-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/x-men-apocalypse-olivia-munn-practicing-sword-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Olivia Munn Have the Sword Skills to Play Psylocke in X-Men?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/psylocke.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/psylocke-640x384.jpg\" alt=\"Psylocke\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/psylocke-640x384.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/psylocke.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/psylocke-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fox&#8217;s next mutant film, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=X-Men&#038;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\">X-Men: Apocalypse<\/a>,<\/em><\/strong> is deep into production and director Bryan Singer continues to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/2015\/02\/09\/bryan-singers-mutant-power-might-social-media\/\">massive presence<\/a> on social media. However, he&#8217;s not the only one!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivia Munn,<\/strong> who was cast as mutant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/2015\/04\/14\/bryan-singer-adds-another-telepath-to-x-men-apocalypse\/\">Psylocke<\/a>, posted a fun video to her Instagram account yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"4\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf\/\/42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB\/lQPb79drWOyJVa\/DAvg9B\/rLB4cC+Nqgdz\/TvBbBnr6GBReqn\/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I\/fZou\/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/4fPS83MmZ-\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_top\">Learned some new tricks&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A video posted by Olivia Munn (@oliviamunn) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2015-06-28T21:35:12+00:00\">Jun 28, 2015 at 2:35pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or are those some <em>seriously<\/em> impressive skills? I&#8217;m not sure if Munn&#8217;s had experience with swords before, but she looks great here. It&#8217;s not clear if the sword she&#8217;s handling is real, but there&#8217;s a glint on the blade which makes me think it might be.<\/p>\n<p>The sword Munn is handling is a katana, which is one of Psylocke&#8217;s signature weapons. In the comics, she&#8217;s able to create a telekinetic katana and I hope we&#8217;ll get to see that as well in the movie.<\/p>\n<p><em>Apocalypse<\/em> is so far a crowded a film and there&#8217;s no way to say how it&#8217;s shaping up so far, but this video has me excited to see what else will be in store. It&#8217;s set to hit theaters on May 27, 2016 and stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Alexandra Shipp, Tye Sheridan, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Olivia Munn, and Oscar Isaac.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Olivia Munn&#8217;s sword skills? Are you excited to see her as Psylocke? 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Olivia Munn, who was cast as mutant Psylocke, posted a fun video to her Instagram account yesterday: Learned some new tricks&#8230; A video posted by Olivia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":24294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,388,558],"tags":[888,1971,3145,112,2632,1859],"yst_prominent_words":[15053,9169,9545,6413,23110,8998,16537,23107,23109,6365,19798,20335,16037,20340,6116,14577,23108,7784,11163,6485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24300,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24288\/revisions\/24300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24288"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}