Alan Cumming Talks Returning for 'Avengers: Doomsday,' Says It Was Healing Experience
Alan Cumming is opening up about reprising his X-Men role in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday.
The 60-year-old actor and host will be back as Nightcrawler in the next installment of the MCU superhero movies, over 20 years after he last played the character in X2.
In a recent interview, Alan opened up about how reprising the role in the upcoming movie was healing after a bad experience filming X2.
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“I just came back. It was amazing. It was actually really… in a sort of ooey, gooey way, it was really healing and really nice to go back to something that it was a terrible experience when I did it the first time,” he told People. “A great film, great film. I love the film.”
Alan added that he was “miserable” while filming X2, saying it was “awful for a variety of reasons that I have talked about at length.”
So far, making Avengers: Doomsday has been positive for him!
“It was actually really great to go back. And especially, I’m 60 years old. I did not think I would be doing stunts, playing a superhero in my 60s. So that was great,” he dished. “And everyone was really nice. And I got it done really quickly because I couldn’t go, because of The Traitors, when most of my scenes were being shot.”
“So I squashed them all together, and got a green screen and various things and little scenes of people here and there,” Alan teased. “But it was pretty stealthy.”
“I would’ve liked to have been there for weeks and weeks. I wasn’t there for very long at all, so that was also good,” he said.
One of Alan‘s X-Men co-stars also recently dished on their experience reprising their role.
Find out who all has been announced to return for Avengers: Doomsday, whose release date was pushed back several months…
Pictured in the gallery: Alan Cumming attending the TV Academy’s inaugural Televerse Festival at JW Marriott LA Live on Thursday (August 14) in Los Angeles.