Famke Janssen admires Ken Parsons and Carrie Parker.
“It’s a paradigm shift,” the veteran film star said last week during a fascinating talk at Malta’s Mediterranean Film Festival in Valletta. “These are two guys who… built their own audiences on YouTube. They had a vision and they didn’t go into a studio with their cup asking for money. They took their careers into their own hands for very little money and created incredibly creative and entertaining films that found huge audiences. I’m very happy to see that. And they are the same, not heavy AI or CGI films.”
To illustrate this point, Janssen pointed out how Parsons Back rooms A veritable maze of practical combinations emerged. “Back rooms “He’s like Stanley Kubrick on crack,” she joked. Vanity gallery Then I asked the actress who achieved international stardom thanks to her long-running role as Jean Grey X-Menwhether Parsons should get a chance at directing a film X-Men Premium. “Sure,” she said. “[Their success] It opened the door, not just for them, but for others to say, “We don’t have to go through this old system where we make a movie for $300 million.”
The Dutch model-turned-actress arrived in Malta after appearing at Spacecon 2026. While there, she sat down for a chat with Nerdtropolis during which she said Marvel “made a mistake” by not bringing her back as Jean Gray in December. Avengers: Doomsday. Although that comment didn’t come up during her chat at the Mediterrane Film Festival, Ross asked her whether or not she would be open to returning to the blockbuster franchise.
“I’m always open to any opportunity or role or reenacting something I’ve done when there’s something good to play that I can do something with,” she explained during the 90-minute career-spanning conversation (which also covered her nerve-wracking audition for the part of James Bond). Golden eye). “I don’t know that I want to narrow down anything about how something is supposed to go. It’s whatever fits into your life in those moments. It’s incredible that I’ve been part of a franchise like this where I’ve done five films, including Wolverinethe taken A series where I did three and a series called Netflix Hemlock Grove Where I did three seasons. I feel happy that I was able to go back and revisit the characters I played. “I’m always open to anything.”
One thing they’re not open to? Social media.
“I remember Greta Garbo famously saying: ‘I want to be left alone’. That’s been my journey in life. I’m not on social media. I haven’t done the traditional ‘look at me’ kind of thing.” [thing]. I have a different perspective on celebrities. “Especially as an actor, I feel like the less you know about us, and about me in particular, the more I can show who I am with this character,” she said, adding that she never looked at social media. “Now everyone is a celebrity. We now live in this saturated time where everyone is literally turning the camera on themselves and saying: ‘Look at me, me, me.’ I’m on Instagram. I have this huge following.”
She said she didn’t like any of that. “I personally value my privacy more than anything else. I guard it like Fort Knox because I feel like that’s my tool — this endless source of creativity that comes from within — and unless I guard that like crazy and if I let people out with all their criticism and all their negativity and all that, it’s going to change who I am.”
