Following Jennifer Lawrence and Rebecca Romijn ‘s turns as Mystique , Jinkx Monsoon is ready for a trans actress to morph into the X-Men character.

The Oh, Mary! Broadway star jokingly said she’s told her agent to “start dropping my name” for the role after Marvel Studios previously regained rights to the X-Men with a reboot in the works , explaining the significance of the character for the trans community .

“Can I manifest something? Marvel has now regained the rights to X-Men. I think it would be a really cool to have a trans woman be Mystique,” she said on Vulture’s Good One podcast. “She is my favorite Marvel character of all time, and I relate to her so much.”

Monsoon continued, “And I think a lot of trans people do, and we think about how nice it would

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