{"id":78400,"date":"2025-08-18T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78400\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:52:08","slug":"alan-cumming-says-it-was-healing-returning-for-avengers-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78400\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Cumming Says it Was &#8216;Healing&#8217; Returning for &#8216;Avengers: Doomsday&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/alan-cumming\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alan-cumming\" data-tag=\"alan-cumming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Cumming<\/a> was happy to get a do-over playing Nightcrawler in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/avengers-doomsday\/\" id=\"auto-tag_avengers-doomsday\" data-tag=\"avengers-doomsday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a recent interview with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/alan-cumming-calls-it-really-healing-playing-nightcrawler-again-exclusive-11791971\">People<\/a>, \u201cThe Traitors\u201d host said it was \u201creally healing\u201d to return to the role of the teleporting mutant after having a \u201cterrible\u201d time during his first pass at the character in 2003\u2019s \u201cX2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI just came back,\u201d Cumming said. \u201cIt was amazing. It was actually really\u2026 in a sort of ooey, gooey way, it was really healing and really nice to go back to something that was a terrible experience when I did it the first time. A great film, great film. I love the film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCumming added that filming \u201cX2\u201d with defamed director Bryan Singer was \u201cmiserable\u201d and \u201cawful for a variety of reasons that I have talked about at length.\u201d However, filming \u201cDoomsday\u201d has been the complete opposite experience for the Emmy winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt was actually really great to go back,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019m 60 years old. I did not think I would be doing stunts, playing a superhero in my 60s. So that was great. And everyone was really nice. And I got it done really quickly because I couldn\u2019t go, because of The Traitors, when most of my scenes were being shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCumming is not the only X-Man returning for \u201cDoomsday.\u201d Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden and Rebecca Romijn will also appear in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/avengers-doomsday-cast-1235364637\/\">major Marvel team-up.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSeveral core MCU-favorites have also returned for the film, including Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Sebastian Stan, Paul Rudd, Tom Hiddleston, Letitia Wright and Winston Duke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/avengers-delayed-doomsday-secret-wars-december-1236407485\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">comes to theaters<\/a> Dec. 18, 2026. Its sequel, \u201cAvengers: Secret Wars,\u201d debuts Dec. 17, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Cumming was happy to get a do-over playing Nightcrawler in \u201cAvengers: Doomsday\u201c. 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