Scottish actor Alan Cumming is reprising his Nightcrawler role for “Avengers: Doomsday” alongside other “X-Men” actors and is dishing about his experience shooting the new installment from the Russo Brothers in comparison to working on 2003’s “X2: X-Men United.”
During a recent interview with People Magazine, Cumming revealed having a great and “really healing” time shooting “Doomsday,” calling his experience shooting the Bryan Singer-directed film the first time around “miserable.”
“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 told People of the recent Marvel Studios production. “A great film, great film. I love the film.” Continuing to add that the filming was “Awful for a variety of reasons that I have talked about at length.”
The Nightcrawler makeup, taking five hours to complete, likely wasn’t a pleasant part of that experience.
Cumming has also previously teased a fight sequence between his teleporting mutant hero and Pedro Pascal‘s Dr. Reed Richards. Hinting toward a conflict between the mutants and the newly introduced “Fantastic Four” characters. You might remember that Nightcrawler was brainwashed by Bryan Cox‘s William Stryker into attacking the White House as a pretense to start hunting down “dangerous mutants” for the government. It became one of the more memorable action scenes in the franchise, and expectations couldn’t be higher for these new ones.
Those other actors playing mutants in the sequel include Kelsey Grammer as Beast (we assume connected to a different universe established in “The Marvels“), James Marsden as Cyclops, Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, and Channing Tatum returns as Gambit (not originally part of the Singerverse cast).
Speaking of the crossover with “X-Men” characters, Ryan Reynolds teased last week his participation in the “Avengers” sequels, posting a defaced logo of the superhero team (mirroring one that appeared in “Deadpool & Wolverine” during The Void scenes). This led The Hollywood Reporter to claim that the Canadian actor will indeed be showing up in “Doomsday.”
It remains to be seen how the involvement of returning mutants in “Avengers: Doomsday” will ultimately inform things like Jake Schreier‘s upcoming “X-Men” reboot (if at all), which has been telegraphed by Marvel’s Kevin Feige, will be recast with younger talent.
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