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Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor, director, writer, and producer. He has appeared in the films Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Black Mass (2015), Loving (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), and Red Sparrow (2018) and The King (2019). In 2015, Edgerton received a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film for The Gift, a psychological horror-thriller film Edgerton wrote, directed, co-produced, and in which he co-starred. Edgerton garnered further critical acclaim for his performance as Richard Loving in the 2016 historical drama Loving, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 2018, he wrote, directed and starred in the drama Boy Erased, about gay conversion therapy. In 2019, he starred and co-wrote The King.
Following events of the first season, Charles, Hank and Erik continue thier quest to find more about the X Gene and the mutants. Set in the 90's, thier quest leads them to knowledge of various human experimentations on the mutants like those of Stryker. At the helm of it, is Sebastian Shawa , an ex-Hydra scientist who has managed to survive old age and death using mutant gene manipulation and intends to use them as weapons for the future. He's revealed as one of the scientists who tortured Erik in the Nazi camps and killed his mother in order to bring out his true power. Today, he and a group of mutants are causing global attacks . Charles is concerned about the effects of the attacks on an already tabooed and marginalised mutant population, meanwhile Erik is driven by revenge against the person who ruined his life. Towards the end, they manage to defeat the rogue mutants but Erik kills Shaw and vows for revenge against the human population who have been experimenting,killing and marginalising the mutants simply because they were different yet more powerful. Erik and Charles have a grave difference in opinion leading to the end of thier long friendship and trust. Charles who was injured in the spine during the fight, is handicapped and on wheelchair. He doesn't give up on the human race and decides to set up a centre for nurturing and bringing up mutants to live in harmony with the normal population , under secrecy so that they're not persecuted.
