--- title: James McAvoy 'X-Men: Apocalypse': Gets Head Shaved to Play Professor X description: See the photo director Bryan Singer shared of James McAvoy becoming Professor X canonical: https://time.com/3852855/james-mcavoy-bald-x-men-apocalypse/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-09T16:08:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:04:28.015Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: See James McAvoy Get His Head Shaved on 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Set og:description: Now he looks like Professor X og:url: https://time.com/3852855/james-mcavoy-bald-x-men-apocalypse/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See James McAvoy Get His Head Shaved on 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Set twitter:description: Now he looks like Professor X twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See James McAvoy Get His Head Shaved on the _X-Men: Apocalypse_ Set by [Christopher Rosen/EW](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christopher Rosen/EW May 9, 2015 4:08 PM CUT by [Christopher Rosen/EW](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christopher Rosen/EW May 9, 2015 4:08 PM CUT Does revealing a hairstyle count as a spoiler? On Friday, [director Bryan Singer shared a photo of James McAvoy getting his head shaved](http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/05/09/james-mcavoy-goes-bald-for-x-men-apocalypse "undefined") on the set of _X-Men: Apocalypse._ “#Xavier reborn (in process),” Singer wrote in the photo’s caption. McAvoy has played Charles Xavier with a full head of hair in _X-Men: First Class_ and _X-Men: Days of Future Past_, but his locks will bite the dust in _X-Men:_ _Apocalypse_ to further align the 36-year-old star with the Professor X fans know and love. _X-Men: Apocalypse_ is out on May 27, 2016. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/09/james-mcavoy-bald-professor-x-bryan-singer "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3852855/james-mcavoy-bald-x-men-apocalypse/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3852855/james-mcavoy-bald-x-men-apocalypse/"},"headline":"See James McAvoy Get His Head Shaved on the X-Men: Apocalypse Set","datePublished":"2015-05-09T16:08:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:04:28.015Z","description":"Now he looks like Professor X","url":"https://time.com/3852855/james-mcavoy-bald-x-men-apocalypse/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Christopher Rosen/EW"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3852855/james-mcavoy-bald-x-men-apocalypse/","name":"See James McAvoy Get His Head Shaved on the X-Men: Apocalypse Set"}}]}] ```