According to Comicbook, X-Men ’97 star Matthew Waterson (What If…?) broke his silence on a recent series episode. In the episode ‘Tolerance Is Extinction — Part 1’, Val Cooper, played by Catherine Disher (Forever Knight), states the phrase “Magneto Is Right.” *Spoiler Ahead* Magneto is played by Waterson and after, the phrase was stated, the character travels to the North Pole and uses his mutant abilities to send a shockwave through the Earth. During an interview with the Phase Zero podcast, Waterson shared his reactions to the episode.
Waterson said, “One of the really, really nice things has been — I get the scripts that I’m in, and a lot of the time, I’ve not necessarily spent a huge amount of time focusing on parts of scripts that are not the bits that I’m responsible for working on, and making come alive. So one of the really fun things about the show airing has been being able to see the episodes that I didn’t even read the scripts for, so I didn’t know what was happening, and then being able to see the scripts that I did read actually fully realized. Knowing what it’s been building to throughout the first seven episodes, and knowing these last three, how the whole thing comes to a head and wraps up, one of the things that I was really looking forward to was ‘Okay, what does it actually look like, once Magneto has found himself in this situation he finds himself in, for the majority of this episode?’ And then, ‘When he does get loose, what does that choice of his actually, visually, look like? What does it look like when he decides to do that?’ Because there are a million ways you can do it. Being able to see how they did it, and how they sort of visually represented it, was really, really cool.”
“I don’t know if production would describe it this way, but to me, these last three episodes exist almost as a feature, in and of themselves,” Waterson continued. “So this first one is like Act One — you have the big incident that switches you into the second act of the story, and there’s a couple of things that are a part of that. But Bastion’s activities, and then, Magneto’s response, and then, getting everybody finally in the same geographical place. So it’s like, ‘Okay, all the players are now on the board, and literally on the board. They’re not scattered to the four winds. Everybody is in position, now how do we solve this? Because this is going to be a really complicated Rubik’s Cube.'”
Fans can witness the “Magneto Is Right” moment now streaming on Dinsey+.