Avengers: Doomsday Actor Alan Cumming Says He Filmed His Scenes 'In Isolation' Using Green Screen and Often Didn't Know Who He Was Supposed to Be Acting With

X-Men and The Traitors prima Alan Cumming has revealed much astir his clip precocious filming Avengers: Doomsday, and said helium spent the sprout alone.

Cumming antecedently acknowledged helium had already wrapped filming connected adjacent year's Avengers blockbuster earlier than different formed members, arsenic his docket past required him to spell enactment connected the adjacent play of The Traitors.

Perhaps to accomodate this, Cumming's clip reprising his X2 relation of Nightcrawler was comparatively little compared to immoderate different Avengers stars - with wide shooting connected the movie expected to proceed connected inactive for respective months.

"I did the full movie successful isolation," Cumming told Gold Derby. "Lots of greenish screen, look replacement. They adjacent gave characters fake names. I don't cognize who I was acting with fractional the time."

Intriguingly, Cumming appeared to past notation a erstwhile connection helium made astir sharing a combat country with Reed Richards histrion Pedro Pascal, and suggested what helium had said whitethorn really not beryllium the lawsuit owed to this confusion.

"I broke the net by mentioning thing once," Cumming noted, "but honestly, I mightiness person got it wrong."

Despite each this, Cumming antecedently described his wide acquisition returning to the quality of Nightcrawler arsenic "really healing" aft the "miserable" clip helium spent shooting classical X-Men movie X2 nether the now-disgraced manager Bryan Singer.

Avengers: Doomsday volition spot the instrumentality of galore X-Men actors from Fox's older mutant movies. Presumably via the magic of greenish screen, astatine least, Cumming is expected to stock surface clip with Patrick Stewart's Professor X, Kelsey Grammer's Beast, James Marsden's Cyclops, Rebecca Romijn's Mystique, and Ian McKellen's Magneto.

Following the events of Avengers: Doomsday and the consequent Avengers: Secret Wars, Marvel brag Kevin Feige has said that a semi-rebooted timeline volition spot a new, younger X-Men squad travel to the fore, successful a caller X-Men movie acceptable to beryllium directed by Thunderbolts*/The New Avengers' Jake Schreier.

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