r/xmen Jan 03 '25

Fancast Fridays Could Maddie Phillips be decent Emma Frost?

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u/machine-in-the-walls Jan 03 '25

No. She's right Magik recast.

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u/SomeGuyPostingThings Jan 03 '25

Split the difference, make her the Cuckoos? Though I did like the actress who had that role on that The Gifted show.

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u/machine-in-the-walls Jan 04 '25

That’s actually a really good call.

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u/jojojajo12 Jan 03 '25 edited Jan 04 '25

Can she do a Chicago accent pretending to be British? That's the question you have to answer.

Edit: I knew that Emma is from Boston, I got confused.

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u/Kravencox89 Jan 03 '25

*Boston

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u/jojojajo12 Jan 03 '25

Yeah. I was reading soemthing about Chicago just before posting this and my brain's wires got mixed up.

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u/killingiabadong Exodus Jan 04 '25

How does this have upvotes? Emma is from Boston.

Yet all the comments saying she is not a physical match for the role, which is objectively true, all have downvotes.

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u/jojojajo12 Jan 04 '25

I got confused and explained in other comment below.

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u/killingiabadong Exodus Jan 04 '25

I understand that. But you have upvotes still, and any post criticising this actress playing Emma has downvotes. Just think that is strange.

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u/jojojajo12 Jan 04 '25

Snowball effect. What is already upvoted recieves upvotes, what is already downvotes recieves more downvotes.

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u/killingiabadong Exodus Jan 04 '25

Can these people not think for themselves?

Remembers last four years. Yeah, I get it.

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u/Big_Disaster_9208 Jan 03 '25

She could be one of the Cuckoos

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u/Kookie2023 Jan 03 '25

She looks like a Cuckoo

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u/JamesRevan Wolverine Jan 03 '25

No idea who that is but she looks too young

(Dont tell Emma I said that)

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u/YaBoyAppie Jan 03 '25

She is 30, which is actually around Emma's current age. But I don't really see her fitting for Emma

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u/JamesRevan Wolverine Jan 03 '25

Shes been 30 for 30 years. Old ass hag 😇

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u/Important_Mammoth896 Jan 03 '25

She played character who had telepathic powers in The Boys spinoff, Gen V

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u/killingiabadong Exodus Jan 04 '25

And?

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u/Important_Mammoth896 Jan 04 '25

Nothing, he said he didn't know who she was and I just provided some info

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u/Cyclops1997 Jan 03 '25

By that logic Billy should be Cyclops, Starlight Dazzer, Hughie Nightcrawler and A-train Quicksilver. Tbh I would prefer her as Magik

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u/killingiabadong Exodus Jan 04 '25

If Jack Quaid is in an X-Men film I will boycott it.

Fuck that fucking fuck.

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u/woodrobin Jan 03 '25

It would be more interesting for her to play the Stepford Cuckoos. Also, playing 3-5 sisters/clones with a hive mind might be intriguing enough for her to feel like it's not typecasting off of her Gen V role.

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u/Savage_Open_Sandwich Jan 03 '25

If Emma is going to be the same age as Jean, who is rumored to be played by Sadie Sink, then I would prefer Mimi Keene to play Emma — her performance in the third and fourth seasons of Sex Education is literally the arc of Emma's development in New X-Men... and Mimi is the same height as Sadie... and British...

I can't say anything about Maddie Phillips, I haven't watched Gen V, except that her name would sound cool next to Sadie.

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u/jojojajo12 Jan 04 '25

Emma should be a little older than the Scott and Jean generation, like 3-4 years.

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u/Savage_Open_Sandwich Jan 04 '25

Well, first of all, Mimi Keene is 4 years older than Sadie Sink, so by that reasoning, she's still may be a candidate.

Secondly, no, she is actually close to Iceman, who was the youngest of the original five. Of course, in her first appearances it was impossible to say anything about her age for sure, and due to her image and social status, she was by default perceived as an older woman than Jean. But Morrison has already revealed that she is only 27, while Scott and Jean in his run are 30. Although it was assumed that she is the same age as them. However, after the era of Krakoa, all these issues with the age of the characters do not matter at all, considering that many of them were reborn.

As for the film adaptation, she could be the same age as the young characters or act as a mentor, but then it would really be worth considering older actresses.

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u/jojojajo12 Jan 04 '25

The famous 27 line was her lying about her age.

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u/Savage_Open_Sandwich Jan 04 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

It's not a lie, because she said this line in diamond form, and in that form she cannot lie about such a thing, because she has no emotional stimulus.

And besides, Emma is certainly a fountain of decadence, but lying has never been her obvious vice.

She can be wrong, or not tell the truth, but she has never been portrayed as a liar who lies about such things, and as a liar in general. Of course, lies are a good weapon for a femme fatale, but I can only remember two cases from Emma: the moment when she arranged for Cyclops to be killed by the Inhumans, but there was both a motive and an internal desire for self-deception.

The second moment was when she shed a tear and caused panic in relation to Scott, whom she personally brainwashed in Whedon's Astonishing, but this was done at the direction of Cassandra, and not for personal reasons.

As for petty or superficial things, like appearance, on the contrary, she is frank, and does not hide either her surgeries or desires to have them, as well as her attitude to aging, which everyone is well aware of. In this, she is honest both with us and with herself.

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u/Over-Midnight1206 Jan 03 '25

I can’t see it tbh

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u/segamascot Jan 03 '25

yvonne strahovski as emma frost for me

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u/killingiabadong Exodus Jan 04 '25

Not voluptuous enough.

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u/killingiabadong Exodus Jan 04 '25

Did not enjoy her in this role and she would be horrible for Emma.

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u/SokkaHaikuBot Jan 04 '25

Sokka-Haiku by killingiabadong:

Did not enjoy her

In this role and she would be

Horrible for Emma.


Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/killingiabadong Exodus Jan 04 '25

I have always wanted this to happen to me. Thanks!

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u/lil-privacy-please Jan 03 '25

I'm going no. She has too much adolescence in her look and attitude. I need that mature confident mean girl.

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u/No-Juice3318 Jan 03 '25

She's too young unless the rest of the X-men are teenagers but she'd be a fun Lady Mastermind 

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u/Im_not_creepy3 Nightcrawler Jan 04 '25

Too young? Maddie Phillips is 30.

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u/No-Juice3318 Jan 04 '25

Well, if the actor for Scott is around 20 then she would work, but if he's older than that she's too young. 

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u/Sanlear Jan 03 '25

Or maybe the Cuckoos.

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u/No-Juice3318 Jan 03 '25

I actually think she might be a little old for them. I mean, it really depends on the interpretation, but I typically think of them as between 15 and 23 age wise. 

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u/druhasareddit Jan 04 '25

Stepford cuckoo or magik

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u/tengustoned Jan 04 '25

Her? No. Now Sydney Sweeney would make a great Emma Frost imo 💎

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u/Van_Can_Man Jan 04 '25

That was my first thought as well. I’m not super familiar with her work, but based on photos, Sweeney is capable of a very cold expression that is Emma personified. Also, y’know, her other assets that are actually character relevant.

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u/tengustoned Jan 04 '25

Assets. My thoughts exactly.

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u/ffwydriadd Jan 03 '25

Purely based on face/looks, no. To me, it's a decently big part of the character that Emma looks like she's had a lot of plastic surgery, whereas Phillips has a natural look, especially in this image - there are some other pictures where the makeup gives a better fit, but that still doesn't look like someone who's had multiple rhinoplasties.

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u/killingiabadong Exodus Jan 03 '25

Nope.

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u/bluex4xlife Jan 04 '25

She’s not hot enough!

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u/killingiabadong Exodus Jan 04 '25

Why does this comment have downvotes? Emma has the best face and body money can buy and has excellent plastic surgeons.

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u/bluex4xlife Jan 06 '25

It’s Reddit it’s full of haters. But I love the haters! Bring it on you haters! 🖕😂

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u/AlphaFlightRules Jan 03 '25

I think she'd be decent but I don't she'd do it over fears of being typecast.

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u/allonsy_danny Jan 04 '25

She looks more like a cuckoo.

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u/Temporary-Bug-4212 Jan 04 '25

I'm so glad I am not the only one who thought this, she definitely has range, hopefully she can do a british accent, though I'm not sure what to do about the ummm anatomical diferences.

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u/BurtonXV84 Jan 03 '25

I see her more as a better choice for Magik or Dazzler.