Alan Cumming seems happy he returned to his standout X-Men character for a new superhero movie, even if the first time around wasn’t exactly ideal.
The celebrated performer, 60, recently opened up to People about his time working on Marvel’s upcoming film Avengers: Doomsday, set to release next year. He had nothing but positive things to say about the experience.
“I just came back. It was amazing. It was actually really… in a sort of ooey, gooey way, it was really healing and really nice to go back to something that it was a terrible experience when I did it the first time,” he said in a recent interview published Sunday, Aug. 17. “A great film, great film. I love the film.”
Earlier this year, Marvel announced the Spy Kids star as one of the actors reprising their roles — Cumming’s being the X-Men franchise’s Nightcrawler — in the forthcoming Avengers film.
Cumming noted to People that he was “miserable” making X2 (2003), which he notes was “awful for a variety of reasons that I have talked about at length.”
The actor previously credited having to spend up to five hours in the makeup chair and difficulties with director Bryan Singer, which he touched on in his memoir, Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life, as reasons why he disliked working on the X-Men sequel.
Doomsday, however, has been a positive experience so far for the Emmy-winning host of The Traitors, as People reports.
“It was actually really great to go back,” Cumming told the outlet. “And especially, I’m 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’t go, because of The Traitors, when most of my scenes were being shot. So I 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.”
