‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Nightcrawler role heals Alan Cumming

Scottish actor Alan Cumming shared his excitement about reprising his role as Nightcrawler in the highly anticipated Marvel film Avengers: Doomsday.

Speaking with People, the X2 star said it was “really healing” to return to the role of the teleporting mutant after what he described as a “terrible” experience filming the 2003 movie.

“I just came back,” Cumming said. “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 was a terrible experience when I did it the first time. A great film, great film. I love the film.”

The Tony Award winner added that working on X2, directed by Bryan Singer, was “miserable” and “awful for a variety of reasons that I have talked about at length.”

However, Avengers: Doomsday gave him the complete opposite experience.

“It was actually really great to go back,” the Emmy winner said. “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.”

Avengers: Doomsday hits theatres on December 18, 2026, followed by its sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars, on December 17, 2027.

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