Bryan Singer Talks About Sexual Michael Egan’s Abuse Charges

Bryan Singer, the X-Men: Apocalypse director, finally has spoken out on Thursday about the sexual abuse allegations he faced last year.

Bryan Singer Speaks On Sexual Abuse Scandal

Singer was accused last year of sexually abusing actor Michael Egan years earlier when Egan was a teenager. Singer denied the accusation and Egan’s case eventually fell apart, but the scandal occurred just as X-Men: Days of Future Past was opening and the production for Apocalypse was already underway.

Singer, 49, said that he never thought about stepping away, nor was he asked to. “I love working,” he told EW. “This is what I love to do. Making films is something I’ve been doing since I was 13 years old. So to not do it just because of some bulls—t, like complete, absolute bulls—t, would be absurd.”

The X-Men producers appeared to agree with the director. “The idea of anybody else directing Apocalypse didn’t enter our minds,” said producer Hutch Parker.

“For all of us that knew Bryan, we were pretty confident that was all going to go away and be exposed for what that has been exposed as being,” noted screenwriter Simon Kinberg.

Egan dropped the lawsuit against Singer last August after his lawyer, Jeff Herman, withdrew from the case over deteriorating client relations.

“We felt so good with what he did with Days of Future Past and we were so proud of that movie and that process was a very positive process. We never talked about another filmmaker for this,” Kinberg added.

X-Men: Apocalypse stars Jennifer Lawrence, Olivia Munn, Oscar Isaac and Sophie Turner. The film is the ninth installment of the X-Men series and is set to hit theaters May 27, 2016.

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