January Jones joins X-Men: First Class

The casting announcements for Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class keep on coming. According to THR, Mad Men‘s January Jones has signed on to play the telepathic Emma Frost.

Alice Eve had been circling the role for some time, but it looks like she missed out!

Jones joins (extra deep breath) Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, Rose Byrne as Moira McTaggert, Oliver Platt as The Man in Black, Caleb Landry Jones as Banshee, Lucas Till as Havoc, Edi Gathegi as Darwin, Jason Flemyng as Azazel and Kevin Bacon as the as-yet-unknown villain.

Discuss: Jones is a very talented actress. It’ll be nice to see her in a role in which she isn’t a being awful to her children.