Alan Cumming picked up Outstanding Host for The Traitors on Sunday, then confirmed he is done filming Nightcrawler for Avengers: Doomsday. “Well, I’ve already done it. I finished it.”
He says the return was physical. “I did a lot of stunt work and training. That was amazing.” He joked about his age too. “The stunt people couldn’t believe that I could get up, let alone jump around and do this boxing and training.”
Cumming admitted he did not rewatch X2 before stepping back in. “I think that was what really helped, because this is super intense, and is loads of stuff at once.”
Makeup and tech have changed the job. “Actually, what’s great about it, it was four-and-a-half to five hours before, and now it’s 90 minutes.” He also pointed to the upgraded toolkit. “The thing about green screen, CGI and face replacement is that it’s very detailed work. So I did feel that I got a chance to really portray the character again properly.”
Avengers veterans and legacy X-Men are back in Doomsday, with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, and Rebecca Romijn among those returning, alongside MCU mainstays like Robert Downey Jr. (as Doctor Doom), Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Paul Rudd, Tom Hiddleston, Letitia Wright, and Winston Duke. Doomsday opens December 18, 2026. Avengers: Secret Wars follows on December 17, 2027.
Source: Variety.com
