previously<\/a> revealed that he spent \u201cabout four and a half hours\u201d in makeup and clashed with director Bryan Singer. He detailed those struggles in his memoir Baggage: Tales From a Fully Packed Life. At the Televerse 2025 conference, he contrasted that experience with the streamlined filming of Avengers: Doomsday.<\/p>\n\u201cI did not think I would be doing stunts, playing a superhero in my 60s. So that was great,\u201d Cumming said. He explained that his scheduling conflicts with The Traitors meant his work on Doomsday had to be condensed. \u201cI squashed them all together, and got a green screen and various things and little scenes of people here and there. But it was pretty stealthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cumming also highlighted how advances in makeup technology improved his time on set. \u201cBefore all the tattoos were done by hand \u2018cause they hadn\u2019t decided on them before we started filming, and now there are all these little things you stick on. It\u2019s a game-changer,\u201d he said, noting that the process now takes about 90 minutes instead of five hours.<\/p>\n
Marvel Studios confirmed his return with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Romijn, Kelsey Grammer, and James Marsden. Avengers: Doomsday will hit theaters on December 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Cumming recently opened up about reprising his role as Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday and reflected on how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21768,6458,96,949,5396,7468,2839,56,54,55,7326],"class_list":["post-75242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alan-cumming","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-marvel","tag-mcu","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75242","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=75242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}