Alan Cumming discovered it “actually therapeutic” to reprise his position as Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday.
The 60-year-old actor and Traitors presenter had a horrible time when he beforehand took on the position for Bryan Singer’s 2003 film X2 and Alan was thrilled to get the prospect to play the character once more and depart with completely happy recollections of set.
He advised PEOPLE: “It was superb. It was really actually… in a type of ooey, gooey means, it was actually therapeutic and very nice to return to one thing that it was a horrible expertise after I did it the primary time. An important movie, nice movie. I really like the movie.
“It was really actually nice to return. And particularly, I am 60 years previous. I didn’t suppose I’d be doing stunts, taking part in a superhero in my 60s. In order that was nice. And everybody was very nice. And I acquired it executed actually shortly as a result of I could not go, due to The Traitors, when most of my scenes had been being shot.”
Alan added that he was “depressing” making X2, for an “terrible for a wide range of causes that I’ve talked about at size”.
He beforehand advised Kate Thornton on the White Wine Query Time podcast: “We had been actually in a really unhealthy working scenario.
“It was harmful, it was abusive, and the studio did not care. All of the actors stated one thing they usually nonetheless simply went: ‘Oh, by no means thoughts. It is solely gonna be a number of extra weeks, don’t fret. And it is gonna make some huge cash.’
“They really stated that and in addition ‘you are beneath contract’. And I stated: ‘I do not wish to really feel soiled about going to work’. I’d cry, it was simply tragic.
“I’d be in that terrible blue make-up. I placed on a great deal of weight throughout that as a result of I’d simply eat, I used to be exhausted. My boyfriend on the time would make all these loopy huge meals.
“I’d go residence, eat a ton, have a pair glasses of wine, burst into tears and fall asleep. After which go and be a depressing blue mutant [the next day].”
Sir Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden and Rebecca Romijn may even reprise their X-Males roles for the film, whereas core MCU actors Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Sebastian Stan, Paul Rudd, Tom Hiddleston, Letitia Wright and Winston Duke will star.