Look: We know Marvel\u2019s film wing takes its secrecy pretty seriously\u2014especially when it relates to next December\u2019s Avengers: Doomsday, the basket in which the studio has pretty clearly placed all of its delicious, \u201cpulling the ripcord and bringing Downey back to play our bad guy\u201d eggs. Even so, actually filming\u00a0the movie is starting to sound increasingly surreal, at least as recounted by Alan Cumming, who has described the process of returning to the character of beloved X-Man Nightcrawler after 22 years as being akin to filming in a featureless, co-star-free void.<\/p>\n
Cumming was talking to\u00a0Gold Derby<\/a>, mostly about\u00a0The Traitors<\/a>, and especially about how cute his dog Lala is on\u00a0The Traitors. (To be fair: Cute fuckin\u2019 dog<\/a>.) But he did reveal as much as he could about\u00a0Doomsday, which sounds like almost entirely nothing. \u201cI did the entire film in isolation. Lots of green screen, face replacement. They even gave characters fake names. I don\u2019t know who I was acting with half the time.\u201d Cumming\u00a0does\u00a0note that he already got in trouble with Marvel for spoilers at one point\u2014he told\u00a0<\/a>Buzzfeed UK<\/a>\u00a0that he\u2019d asked who he was supposed to be fighting in a scene, and was told it was Fantastic Four\u2018s Pedro Pascal\u2014so it\u2019s possible he\u2019s either learned to clam up, or has just been moved off the need-to-know list. (\u201cI broke the internet by mentioning something once, but honestly, I might have got it wrong.\u201d) But it still sounds kind of crazy-making for an actor to be in a scene and not know where they are, who they\u2019re acting \u201cwith,\u201d or what other characters are allegedly in the room with them.<\/p>\n (This is not necessarily a new Marvel phenomenon, by the way; Elizabeth Olsen claimed<\/a>, at least semi-credibly circa Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness<\/a>, that she\u2019d never met John Krasinski, whose Mr. Fantastic her character shared a memorable, if clearly very green-screened, scene with.)<\/p>\n For what it\u2019s worth, Cumming\u2014who suggests that part of the weirdness around his filming had less to do with spoiler control than with his busy\u00a0Traitors schedule, which necessitated a quick shoot out of sync with the rest of the movie\u2019s cast\u2014has also said he\u2019s just happy to be back in the ol\u2019 blue skin for a second time around. He famously had a pretty bad time filming 2003\u2019s X2: X-Men United<\/a>, attributing it, in his memoir, to erratic behavior on the part of director Bryan Singer. By contrast, Doomsday\u00a0was \u201cActually 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, billion-dollar baby Deadpool will probably also be in Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars delayed seven months apiece<\/a><\/p>\n