Alan Cumming Calls 2003 X-Men Sequel His ‘Gayest Film’

Alan Cumming has plenty of ideas about his function as Nightcrawler within the 2003 Marvel film X2: X-Males United.

“Oh, I feel the X-Males movie I’m in is the gayest movie that I’ve ever executed — and that’s me saying that,” Cumming, 59, advised Entertainment Weekly throughout a retrospective of his profession, printed on Sunday, June 16. “It’s obtained a queer director, numerous queer actors in it.”

The film was the second installment in twentieth Century Fox’s X-Males franchise. X2 was directed by the controversial Bryan Singer (who was later accused {of professional} and sexual misconduct, and has since denied the allegations) and costarred Ian McKellen, who was brazenly homosexual, in addition to Anna Paquin, who got here out as bisexual in 2010.

“I really like the truth that one thing so mainstream and so within the comedian guide world is so queer,” Cumming continued. “I feel, in a means, these kinds of movies actually assist folks perceive queerness, as a result of you’ll be able to deal with it in a creative means, and everyone seems to be much less fearful of the idea. It’s an allegory about queerness, about folks having these nice items and actually nice, highly effective issues that they’ve to cover to exist. Queer folks perceive what that’s all about.”

Cumming introduced the character Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler — a mutant resembling a blue demon who can teleport from place to position — to life after Singer wished him to play the function. The Traitors star additional mentioned the “actually attention-grabbing” function in a blog post on his website, and the way sure processes turned fairly the expertise.

“The actual drag was having to spend over 4 hours a day having two males poke my face,” he wrote. “Then there have been the harnesses for the tail and for flying, the toes, the palms — which made going to the john a gaggle effort, the tooth, the lenses, oh God don’t get me began.”

Whereas he couldn’t tease something about The Traitors season 3 simply but (the forged was introduced earlier this month), Cumming did inform EW on Sunday that the present has been a “nice” expertise total.

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“I didn’t fairly perceive why they wished me to do it,” he admitted. “However I met with them, and I spotted that it was as a result of they form of wished me to be theatrical and camp, to play this larger-than-life character, and form of create the temper of the entire present. As soon as I understood that, I used to be actually on board.”

Cumming went on to say that “having the liberty to push the boundaries” and “up the ante” has been one of the best a part of The Traitors gig.

“It’s a extremely great point to recollect to say sure to life, and say sure to issues that you simply don’t actually perceive or appear a bit bizarre,” he mentioned. “I feel as you become older, you’re inspired not to try this — so, for me, it’s been actually essential to flout that conference. And right here I’m doing this present that I actually take pleasure in and have such fun doing.”