One of the biggest takeaways from the last Iron Man movie was the reveal that Ben Kingsley was not actually the villain, The Mandarin, but was Trevor Slattery, a failing actor looking for a gig. But could that of been a façade and Kingsley be returning as the real thing?

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Speaking with IGN on Wednesday, Kingsley talked about his role in Iron Man 3 and the future of his character.

"Has the Mandarin invented Trevor, or has Trevor invented the Mandarin? Which is which? The Mandarin could be so supremely intelligent that he could have said, 'You know what? I'll invent this actor, and he will be my mask.'" Kingsley asked.

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"Who's pulling the strings. Now, this is me just free-thinking here, but I would love to revisit that world. But Trev, bless him, may have made an indelible mark on that world. So everyone might say, 'Is it Trev under there?' So they'd have to approach it quite carefully, and so would I, but I would love to go back to that world, yeah."

Kingsley also talked about the rise of the comic book movie and how he views the stories between the heroes and villains.

"It's not to do with exploration. It's not to do with tribal warfare -- it's more galactic warfare. But it is more to do with gods and goddesses, and that has hit a nerve for some reason. Somehow the comic books evolved and just hit that archetype, but it's nudging on mythology," Kingsley said.

"It's nudging on Zeus and Apollo and Medea and all those extraordinary creatures from very, very ancient mythology. I think that perhaps, some time ago I coined a rather pretentious phrase saying that we have given over our mythology to the advertising men."

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