Films 'dumbed down' for Americans - McAvoy
Bafta-winning actor James McAvoy has claimed British film-makers dumb down their productions for American audiences.
Ahead of the release of X-Men: First Class, in which McAvoy plays a young Charles Xavier, the Scot said Americans are perceived in the wrong light when it comes to following storylines.
"We dumb our movies down because we want Americans to understand them,” McAvoy told Sky News.
“The Americans watch it and go 'this is a really unsophisticated dumbed down movie. Why would we want this? Why do we like this? We don't'.
"It's like we're patronising them and short changing ourselves.”
The fifth installment of X-Men, a prequel, releases today and we find out how the mutant superhero saga started.
“The fifth X-Men needs to be different,” McAvoy said. “You can't keep putting out films with the same tone and vibe. I think this does that.
"It's about what might have been. It's about brothers and then them tearing each other apart."
