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While director Bryan Singer said the actress “won’t appear” in the film last December, but Fox confirms to BuzzFeed that Paquin’s character Rogue has made the final cut of the film.

Anna Paquin as Rogue in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand

20th Century Fox

Breathe easy, X-Men fans: You will get to see Anna Paquin in X-Men: Days of Future Past after all.

In December, director Bryan Singer told Entertainment Weekly that the True Blood star "won't appear" in the superhero sequel after the only action sequence involving her character Rogue had to be cut from the film. Singer explained that in the editing process, he discovered the sequence was "extraneous" to the story. "Unfortunately, it was the one and only sequence Anna Paquin was in, the Rogue character was in," said Singer. "Even though she's in the materials and part of the process of making the film, she won't appear in it."

That sequence may not have survived, but it turns out, Rogue has. After noticing Paquin's name was conspicuously present in the credits following the newest trailer for the film released late Tuesday, a rep for 20th Century Fox has confirmed to BuzzFeed that Paquin is back in the film. "Essentially, [it's] a cameo," said the rep.

With a storyline that jumps from the near future to 1970s America, X-Men: Days of Future Past is the most ambitious movie in the 14-year-old, now seven-film franchise, incorporating actors from the original film trilogy like Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, and Halle Berry, and from the 2011 prequel X-Men: First Class like Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, and Jennifer Lawrence. With so many characters to service in a feature-length running time, it is understandable that Singer and screenwriter Simon Kinberg (X-Men: The Last Stand) would have difficulty working in every single X-Men character into the film. In Paquin's case, apparently, they were able to conjure the screen time after all.