IGN FilmForce has confirmed that "Predator" actor Bill Duke has joined the cast of "X-Men 3" as a politician in The President's cabinet. Also, veteran actor Michael Murphy ("Batman Returns") will play the role of Warren Worthington, Sr.,father of Angel (Ben Foster).

Also, British actress Olivia Williams ("The Sixth Sense", "Below") has been cast as Dr. Moira MacTaggert. In the comics, the Nobel Prize-winning Moira was a former lover of Professor X's who ran a mutant research center on Muir Island in her native Scotland. She also also the mother of the mutant known as Proteus. Moira died after discovering a cure for a new strain of the Legacy virus.

Meanwhile, this weekend in Las Vegas, Patrick Stewart revealed that for the last week he has been filming X3 in Vancouver with Brett Ratner and that while things were a little chaotic due to Ratner's late arrival he sees it coming along as well as the last two films.

Interestingly enough according to one of the attendees, Stewart said most of the scenes he had worked on were not on any hard print whatsoever and were told to him directly from the writer. After "X3" he is rejoining the Royal Shakespearean Company for a year and a half and wouldn't be working on anything else film wise until 2007.

Thanks to 'Jake'