But it did allow him to tick off one particular ambition, as he proudly told Digital Spy, “I’ve been trying to get a man masturbating while crying into a movie for quite a long time”. The film got reasonably good reviews, especially for a movie based on a book that, for a long time, was considered basically unfilmable due to the insanity of its content. McAvoy admitted, “I don’t have a cry-wank in X-Men, unfortunately. [But] I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think there was a little bit of Bruce in the latest incarnation of Professor X. We find him in a very bad place, a very abused place and a very mentally messed-up place, a self-abusing and self-harming kind of place.