The 32-year-old Scots-born actor, who plays Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class, a film largely shot in Britain which is out this week, said Americans recognised they were being

patronised and the films flopped. Quality should come before compromise, he said. “We make loads of movies for America, yet it’s never the ones aimed at America that do well. Something like

The King’s Speech, made for relatively little money, just keeps making money.”