article_snippet.sent: Not to be outdone, director Bryan Singer announced a new character for next year's sequel "X-Men: Apocalypse," by telling Empire magazine that Ben Hardy would be playing the role of the winged mutant Angel.
article_snippet.sent: Ben Hardy even had a photo to share.
article_snippet.sent: And Ben Hardy looks ... pretty much like The Thing we already knew (but reportedly, CGI this time).
highlights_snippet.sent: Apocalypse" Angel played by Ben Hardy .