X-Men Star Evan Peters Ready to Sprint Back as Quicksilver—and Finally Unpack His Origin

Evan Peters wants to run it back as Quicksilver. In a new chat with IMDb, he says he is absolutely down to return to the X-Men speedster, and he makes a solid case for why there is more to do than the memorable slow-mo gags.

Peters is game for another lap as the X-Men speedster

"I would love to come back and do Quicksilver again. I think it was such a fun character and there is a lot more to explore... I always sort of played it like a guest spot. He pops in and he pops out, so I am always curious to see what it would really be like to explore that character and the backstory."

That tracks with how he has been used so far: scene-stealing entrances, time-stopping set pieces, and then he is gone until the next crisis. He clearly wants a full arc, not just another show-up-and-smirk cameo.

Quick refresher on where we have seen him

• X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - first time out as Peter Maximoff, the fast kid with the headphones and the kitchen rescue that broke the internet
• X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) - more slo-mo flair, bigger mutant stakes
• Dark Phoenix (2019) - back again for the Fox X-Men swan song
• Deadpool 2 - a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo
• MCU TV twist: on WandaVision, he played Ralph Bohner, a Westview local Agatha Harkness magically manipulates to impersonate Wanda's twin brother, Pietro. Same face as the Fox Quicksilver, completely different guy. (The Agatha All Along spinoff ties back to that Westview world, which is why people still bring it up.)

The confusing TV detour, explained

If you forgot that curveball: WandaVision brought Peters in as a fake-out. He was not the MCU version of Quicksilver. He was Ralph Bohner, a regular Westview resident enchanted by Agatha to pose as Pietro. Fun meta casting, maddening for anyone trying to make a clean multiverse chart.

Those speedster sequences still wow him

Peters also shouted out the technical wizardry behind the X-Men set pieces, calling the visual effects work mind-blowing and saying he still cannot believe he got to be behind the scenes for sequences that elaborate. Fair. Those kitchen and mansion bits are still top-tier comic-book movie moments.

What he is doing right now

Peters is currently chewing the scenery in Tron: Ares as Julian Dillinger, an antagonistic tech CEO. He is acting opposite Greta Lee, Jared Leto, and Gillian Anderson. In the movie, Julian is the architect behind Ares, an AI supersoldier that Dillinger Systems pulls into the real world. Tron: Ares is in theaters now.