{"id":578244,"date":"2026-05-11T15:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578244\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:17:11","slug":"alan-cumming-opens-up-on-unacceptable-x-men-filming-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578244\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Cumming opens up on &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; X-Men filming experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Reprising his role as Nightcrawler in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, Cumming said he was happy to overwrite the memories on the set of the 2003 X2, where the cast reportedly threatened to leave the set due to difficulties with director Bryan Singer.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The US Traitors host has previously spoken about his \u201chellish\u201d time on the production, which saw him spend five hours in the makeup chair on several occasions, but explained in an interview with Deadline News why he jumped at the chance to revisit the character.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThere were things that happened on the [X2] set that were just shocking to me,\u201d Cumming said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/26094440.gaza-documentary-filmmakers-slam-bbc-broadcaster-cuts-baftas-awards-speech\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gaza documentary filmmakers slam BBC as broadcaster cuts Bafta&#8217;s awards speech<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe working environment was very, very wrong and very just unacceptable. And we all have talked about it in various ways over the years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cGoing back to it after all these years was great because I really liked the character, and so to go back and play him now and also this film is like superhero soup. There\u2019s so many of them in it. I just can\u2019t keep up.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cumming also told People last week that filming Doomsday was not only \u201camazing\u201d in an \u201cooey, gooey way\u201d, but that it was \u201creally healing and really nice to go back to something that was a terrible experience when I did it the first time\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Alan Cumming on Hollywood Boulevard (Image: (Photo by JC Olivera\/Getty Images)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The returning Doomsday cast is set to include the likes of Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Paul Rudd, Tom Hiddleston and Simu Liu.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Along with Cumming returning to the franchise, Rebecca Romijn, who played Mystique in the original trilogy and Kelsey Grammer, who portrayed Dr Henry \u201cHank\u201d McCoy, also known as Beast.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Avengers: Doomsday is due to hit cinemas in December this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/26094177.wes-streeting-tells-keir-starmer-ready-next-prime-minister\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wes Streeting tells Keir Starmer he&#8217;s &#8216;ready to be next prime minister&#8217;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It comes after the Scottish actor criticised the \u201cbad leadership\u201d behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/baftas\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bafta<\/a> film awards, and said he would not want to host the event again after the BBC failed to censor an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/26003837.bbc-breached-editorial-standards-broadcasting-bafta-racial-slur\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">involuntary tick by tourette\u2019s campaigner John Davidson during the broadcast<\/a>, which was on a two-hour time delay.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Davidson has since said he was \u201cdeeply mortified\u201d by the incident, with Cumming, who hosted the ceremony, describing it as an \u201cinternational scandal\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 61-year-old said: \u201cIt was bad, bad, bad, bad leadership. Bad people who weren\u2019t doing their jobs properly, who really had not prepared and let people down.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/national\/26093520.alan-cumming-criticises-bad-leadership-bafta-film-awards-racial-slur\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cumming said he had not been warned about the possibility<\/a> of Davidson having an offensive outburst as a result of his Tourette\u2019s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: \u201cThey just said, \u2018There\u2019ll be noise\u2019. You could say they didn\u2019t know, but they clearly did, because apparently John had said the n-word at a party the day before.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThey were thinking of shouting at me during the dress rehearsal to see what I\u2019d do, but they didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reprising his role as Nightcrawler in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, Cumming said he was happy to overwrite the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-578244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}