By Josh Horowitz

Maybe it was Jennifer Lawrence walking around naked all the time. Or Hugh Jackman debuting Wolverine’s bare butt when he travels back to the past. Whatever the reason, “X-Men: Days of Future Past” had us pondering weighty questions about sex, love and, yes, death.

So we decided to turn these provocative questions right back on the cast in this decidedly silly and often very illuminating game of “F–k, Marry, Kill.”

To give it a decidedly mutant-y twist, the cast was asked to ponder who among Professor X, Beast, and Wolverine they’d want to, well, you know the game. After some hemming and hawing (Hugh Jackman’s first response: “I’m so getting in trouble for this.”), we were off to the races. In the hot seat were Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage and Nicholas Hoult. Their answers may surprise you. Who knew so many people wanted to bed Charles Xavier?

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By Shaunna Murphy

Robert Pattinson has some… concerns… when it comes to today’s child stars.

The former “Twilight” hunk told Vanity Fair that Benjie — the bratty, drug-addled teen star at the center of his new film, “Maps to the Stars” — hit a little too close to home.

“I think Benjie is probably the truest character,” Pattinson said during an interview at the Cannes Film Festival. “I’ve met a lot of kids like him… when you see these kids, there is only one way: you either get in therapy now or become a serial killer, or kill yourself. I mean, you can see it really early on — it’s terrifying.”

Terrifying is definitely one way to put it. But before you decide to beef up your home security in case Bella Thorne comes to town, know that Pattinson thinks there’s another way — apparently, taking a few years off after “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” made a huge difference when it came to dealing with the pressures of “Twilight”-level fame.

“I did ‘Harry Potter’ when I was like 17, and nothing really happened after that,” Pattinson continued. “I mean, I made loads of money compared to anyone my age — it was incredible. But I mean, then I just did little TV things afterwards. But I got to live from 18 to 21, you get your own apartment and basically I didn’t star in ‘Twilight’ until 21. It’s different because you’re still young, but you’ve had a life ...

Wait, wait, wait, wait, waaaaaaaaait a minute. With all our talk about Nicki Minaj‘s new single, “Pills N Potions,” we totally missed the major truth-bomb she dropped on Power 106′s “Big Boy’s Neighborhood” this morning.

When asked about how many selfies she usually has to take before she finds one she likes enough to Instagram, Nicki revealed that: “You’ve got to shoot at least 2,000 selfies to get at least one [to post].” B-but, that’s so many selfies! My jaw — she has dropped. Please forward all mail to her new permanent address, THE FLOOR.

Do you know what this means? To Instagram this revealing selfie…

Nicki Minaj's Instagram

This duckface selfie with Rihanna…

Nicki Minaj's Instagram

This behind-the-back mirror selfie…

Nicki Minaj's Instagram

This Movie Awards selfie with her “The Other Woman” co-stars…

Nicki Minaj's Instagram

And this #meta selfie right here…

Nicki Minaj's Instagram

…Nicki took approximately 10,000 selfies!

A moment of silence for the 9,995 that didn’t make it.

John Walker

We all feel a certain connection to Emma Stone, that much is undeniable. In the trailer for Woody Allen’s latest movie, “Magic In the Moonlight,” however, it would appear that she has a connection to a world even beyond that of the living.

Colin Firth plays Stanley, an English performer who has a specialty in debunking magic tricks, being a practitioner of illusions himself. As a favor for a friend, he goes to scope out beautiful Sophie (Stone), a “visionary and a vision,” who claims to be able to commune with spirits.

Once she floats a candle off a table at a seance, among other otherworldly acts, Stanley may not be quite so ready to call her out as a fraud. Oh, and the fact that he may or may not be a little into her doesn’t help matters either. Oops.

Check out the trailer above and cast your vote. Emma Stone: Mythical, magical or both?

“Magic in the Moonlight” hits theaters July 25.

Kase Wickman

There shouldn’t be a hierarchy of lyrical content in rap, according to Meek Mill. The Philly MC won’t tell you what to rap about, but you better not try to limit his subject matter, either.

“I seen Kid Cudi say, ‘Yeah, they rap about money, cars, and hoes, and all this stuff,’” Meek said during an interview on “The Breakfast Club” on Power 105.1 earlier this week. “And I’m like, ‘Bro, we don’t tell y’all what to rap about.’ If he choose to rap about sniffing coke, I ain’t gonna say nothing about him rapping about that.”

Meek’s comments came in response to an opinion that Cudder voiced on “The Arsenio Hall Show” in March.

“I feel like the braggadocio, ‘Money, cash, hoes’ thing needs to be deaded,” the 30-year-old said. “That’s holding us back as a culture, as black people. That doesn’t advance us in any way, shape or form. We’ve been doing that same thing for years now…Why not tell kids something that they can connect with and use in their lives?”

For the Maybach Music Group rapper, though, it all comes down to the quality of music an artist is making.

“J. Cole wanna rap about college, I might wanna hear the experience of college; I never been to college,” he said. “You know what I’m saying? Rap is rap, man. It’s about how you putting them words together. How you making them flows sound on that beat. And how you making good music.”

“The game be like trying to bounce ...

A lot has changed since the first “X-Men” movie was released in 2000, but there is one thing that ties nearly every entry in the series together: Mystique.

Whether played by Rebecca Romjin or Jennifer Lawrence (or any of the dozens of people she morphs into), Mystique remains a fan favorite, delivering some of the most badass moments of the franchise.

So, in anticipation of what will likely be a ton of awesome Mystique moments in “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” we’ve found all 38 of Mystique’s on-screen shape-shifts in the “X-Men” movies and put them all into one transformative mashup.

Who will she become next? You’ll have to find out by seeing “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” in theaters May 23.

Craig Flaster

Things have been pretty quiet on the Selena Gomez front lately, right? I mean, aside from the whole “attending the Met Gala” thing. C’mon, you know words are always relative when we’re talking about famous people!

Anyway, the “Slow Down” chanteuse stopped her somewhat elusive streak by Instagramming a super-cute photo of herself wearing a bikini at the beach.

The inspirational caption paints a more revealing picture: “Taking my power back.. can’t wait to show you where I’ve been. I love y’all. Ps, I still obsess over pickles.”

Taking her power back? Yay! She’s gonna let us know stuff soon? Can’t wait! She loves us? STAHP! She still obsesses over pickles? Who doesn’t?

Speaking of Instagram, remember when Selena recently unfollowed everyone she was following on Instagram? Neither Justin Bieber nor Taylor Swift were safe from the purge.

Well, the 21-year-old singer is now following three people on Instagram: her lifestyle brand Dream Out Loud, jewelry designer Lorraine Schwartz and Bishop T.D. Jakes.

It looks like Selena was particularly inspired by Bishop Jake’s recent episode of “Oprah’s Lifeclass,” ’cause she also Instagrammed the following quote of his: “You can’t be who you’re going to be and who you used to be at the same time.” I guess that doesn’t apply to pickle obsessions.

Well, whatever’s going on, I’m glad Sel’s got her power back. She seems to be in a really good place, you know? #loveandlight

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It is perhaps unfair to characterize someone who’s very recently been on the receiving end of an Academy Award nomination as just now having a moment, but, hey, let’s consider this the latest in a series of moments Jessica Chastain has been having continuously.

She may have been struck from the running as one of the leads of the second season of HBO’s “True Detective” almost as soon as the rumor sprung up, but the fact is that Chastain has a reputation as the kind of actress people would be happy to see front and center in the super-serious show.

(After all, Matthew McConaughey, one of season one’s leads, didn’t have such a terrible 2013 in film. Alright, alright, alright, Oscar. And Golden Globe. And SAG Award. And Independent Spirit Award.)

Even if she isn’t on our screens solving crimes in one of the best-shot shows ever, Chastain is killing it. Reports coming out of the Cannes Film Festival, which continues through this week, all lead to one conclusion: Girl is owning.

Chastain is a lead in The Weinstein Company’s “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,” a performance that reportedly has Harvey Weinstein seeing little Oscars dancing in the corners of his field of vision.

The movie got a 10-minute standing ovation, which is not a real thing that happens. Except it did.

Yes, start putting your money down on Chastain for a third Oscar nod (she had back to back honors for “The Help” and for being the mothereffer in ...

The countdown for Nicki Minaj‘s The Pink Print has officially begun. On Wednesday (May 21), the reigning rap queen released the album’s first single, “Pills n Potions,” and revealed part of her inspiration for the upcoming LP.

“I think everybody knows how obsessed I am with Jay Z. He’s always been my favorite rapper — him and Wayne,” Nicki started to explain when she sat down with Big Boy’s Neighborhood on Power 106 in Los Angeles earlier today.

“He did such a great job of creating this Blueprint brand for male rappers, I felt. And I studied a lot of his blueprint, just in terms of becoming a mogul,” Nicki added.

Hov released his first The Blueprint album in 2001, a 13-track LP considered a classic by many rap fans. Jay then followed up with The Blueprint 2 a year later and The Blueprint 3 in 2009; the series of albums have become synonymous with the MC’s brand and help him become the businessman he is today.

With The Pink Print, Nicki hopes to set her own standard in hip-hop. “I wanted to do that, I wanted to be like Jay Z. I felt like with what I’m doing, I want female rappers to be able to pattern themselves with what I’ve done one day,” she said. “And I think the album is soooo classic, it’s gonna feel so good and it will probably be one that female rappers will look to as a ‘pink print’ for years to come.”

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I don’t know what it is exactly about Andy Bull‘s new song, “Talk Too Much,” but I’m completely in the mood for all the ’80s-throwback goodness it’s serving up.

Blame it on the rain “Jem And The Holograms” casting announcement, I guess.

Backed by a synth-heavy instrumental that could very well be the lovechild of The Cure‘s “Love Song” and The Thompson Twins‘ “Lies,” the Australian singer-songwriter describes a relationship on the rocks: “Baby, I talk too much, talk too much/ I told you that I heard you crying to yourself/ I pretended I was asleep.”

Paired with the audio is a non-video visual (kind of like what St. Vincent did for “Digital Witness” a few months back) where Andy sits pensively in a restaurant booth. Although he removes what looks to be an engagement or wedding band from his left hand, the ring is back in its original position by clip’s end.

So, are you single or not right now, buddy? You’re really sending me mixed messages. Sorry, I swear that wasn’t my only takeaway from your work.

Look for Andy Bull’s second studio album, Sea of Approval, when it drops on July 11.

John Walker