Alan Cumming says ‘Avengers’ role is ‘healing’ after awful ‘X-men’ experience

Alan Cumming sat down at a panel for The Traitors where he discussed his work on the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday film.

Reprising his role as Nightcrawler from the X-men franchise, he explained that he had wrapped shooting earlier this month, "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. A great film, great film. I love the film."

About X2, he said that it was "awful for a variety of reasons that I have talked about at length."

Cumming has previously discussed having to sit in the makeup chair for hours and getting into conflict with director Bryan Singer as some of the reasons.

"It was actually really great to go back. 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," the Emmy winner gushed. "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," he concluded. "But it was pretty stealthy."

Most of the details about Doomsday are being kept under wraps, with many of the actors also being unsure of what exactly the film will explore.

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