Life ‘Glass’: How James McAvoy got into Beast mode to play a muscular supervillain January 21, 2019Brian Truitt, USA TODAYComments Off on ‘Glass’: How James McAvoy got into Beast mode to play a muscular supervillain James McAvoy channeled his inner Hugh Jackman and got jacked to play the villainous Beast in M. Night Shyamalan's comic-book thriller "Glass."