Oliver Platt and Rose Byrne interviewed on Facebook *SPOILERS*

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Oliver Platt said: "The Man In Black runs a super-secret division of the CIA devoted to investigating the application of mental telepathy and paranormal power in military defense. He has long been a laughing stock of the Agency because of this. His department is known as Division X."

"When Charles and Mystique become ensnared with the Agency, the Man in Black diverts them to his division with a deft bureaucratic sleight of hand. Erik soon joins them and The X-Men flourish under MIB's protection."

Rose Byrne plays Dr Moira MacTaggert and says we won't be hearing MacTaggert's Scottish accent either: "No, [director] Matthew Vaughn was adamant she be American - despite James McAvoy's slight disappointment as he is Scottish."

But she did do her homework on the character's comic backstory and also on the period in which the film's story takes place: "I researched the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the CIA in 1962 as this is when the film is set. Production organised a brilliant X-Men expert to come and talk to us when we wanted. He came with a folder 20 pounds heavy with every comic and known fact on Moira McTaggert collated so I devoured that as well."

In a separate chat, Byrne told The Playlist a little more about her character: "She's kind of a collaborator. She's James McAvoy's love interest in the film. She's a doctor in the comics and she's a CIA agent [in the film].

"She's a real pioneer. It's in the 60s and it's a time when women did not work in the CIA. She's very smart, very ambitious, very forthright and really truly believes that humans and mutants can co-exist and in fact help one another."

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2011/03/oliver-platt-and-rose-byrne-ex-1.html