Do you think we'll ever see New Mutants, and if so...

She’s not horribly optimistic, though. “Who knows when the fuck that’s gonna come out,” she says, confirming recent reports that the much-ballyhooed reshoots to “make it scarier” have yet to happen. “Hopefully this interview will make everyone hurry up a little bit!” she added with a smile. We hope so, too, though it appears the Disney-Fox merger is to blame, and one imagines the wheels are going to continue rolling slowly.

As for Dark Phoenix, Turner subtly shades X-Men: Last Stand, which told the same story of Jean Grey’s transformation into the chaotic Phoenix, by calling the new film “Dark Phoenix done right.” She adds, “Every other scene in Dark Phoenix is, like, the most intense scene I’ve ever done.” She also takes a moment to echo Rami Malek’s remarks about disgraced filmmaker Bryan Singer, who directed Turner in 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse. “Our time together was, like Rami said, unpleasant,” she says.