Avengers: Doomsday 'Really Healing,' X-Men Star Alan Cumming Says, After 'Terrible Experience' on X2

Alan Cumming has contrasted his acquisition returning to the quality of Nightcrawler for Marvel's upcoming Avengers: Doomsday with the "miserable" clip helium faced shooting classical X-Men movie X2.

Cumming is 1 of galore returning X-Men actors acceptable to reappear successful Avengers: Doomsday, alongside Patrick Stewart's Professor X, Kelsey Grammer's Beast, James Marsden's Cyclops, Rebecca Romijn's Mystique, and Ian McKellen's Magneto.

But wherever the different X-Men actors featured successful aboriginal films arsenic their superhero characters, Avengers: Doomsday volition people the archetypal clip Cumming has played Nightcrawler connected the large surface since 2003's X2, the accumulation of which helium has present described arsenic "miserable" and "awful for a assortment of reasons that I person talked astir astatine length."

In his 2021 memoir Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life, Cumming recalled X2's turbulent accumulation astatine the hands of now-disgraced manager Bryan Singer. Cumming alleged that Singer had been abusing painkillers and displaying arratic behaviour connected acceptable that had near galore actors upset and angry, culminating successful a heated confrontation betwixt the formed and their director.

"I conscionable came back," Cumming told People successful a caller interview. "It was amazing. It was really really... successful a benignant of ooey, gooey way, it was truly healing and truly bully to spell backmost to thing that was a unspeakable acquisition erstwhile I did it the archetypal time. A large film, large film. I emotion the film."

"It was really truly large to spell back," Cumming continued. "I'm 60 years old. I did not deliberation I would beryllium doing stunts, playing a superhero successful my 60s. So that was great. And everyone was truly nice. And I got it done truly rapidly due to the fact that I couldn’t go, due to the fact that of The Traitors, erstwhile astir of my scenes were being shot."

While Cumming's clip connected the Avengers: Doomsday acceptable whitethorn person already concluded, accumulation connected the highly-anticipated movie continues with yet much actors seemingly acceptable to statesman shooting. Deadpool prima Ryan Reynolds is expected acceptable to movie scenes successful the adjacent future, portion Doctor Strange successful the Multiverse Multiverse of Madness prima Xochitl Gomez is besides heavy rumored to marque an appearance.

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