The actor wanted his version of Charles Xavier in his “purple haze” era.

Getting long hair (sorry, bald Older Charles) and leaning into the high times of the ’70s.

“I just sat there going outta my mind,” McAvoy joked about the experience.

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) L to R: Nicholas Hoult, James McAvoy and Hugh Jackman

James McAvoy as Charles Xavier in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past.'.Alan Markfield/20th Century Studios

“But, at the end of it, I looked like Professor X.”

But McAvoy’s changes to the character stretched beyond a good paisley print.

So I was like, ‘What do we want to do?

We wanna just do that again?’

Watch McAvoy dish onX-Men and being a terrible marksman while training for the filmWanted in the clip above.

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