Tom Pelphrey confirms that he was in the running to play Professor X in the new ‘X-MEN’ movie. “I’ve got a fat head. I have a watermelon. I was like, ‘If we’re even going to have this conversation, go into your AI image generator and look at me with a shaved head. That alone could be horrifying enough.’” (Source:

Tom Pelphrey on not getting cast as Professor X: “I’ve got a fat head. I have a watermelon. I was like, ‘If we’re even going to have this conversation, go into your AI image generator and look at me with a shaved head. That alone could be horrifying enough.’ I’m not kidding. The only hat I can wear is a fitted size eight. It is empirically a big fat head, and I don’t know if we want to see it shaved.” (

Tom Pelphrey confirms he was in the running for the role of Professor X in the upcoming ‘X-MEN’ movie: “To be in the conversation for those kinds of roles, regardless of the specifics or how it plays out or why, it’s incredible.” (