Alan Cumming says it was 'healing' to return as Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday after 'miserab...

&34;It was actually really great to go back," the actor said. Alan Cumming says it was 'healing' to return as Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday after 'miserabl

"It was actually really great to go back," the actor said.

Alan Cumming says it was 'healing' to return as Nightcrawler in* Avengers: Doomsday* after 'miserable' *X2 *experience

"It was actually really great to go back," the actor said.

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Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler in 'X2'. Credit:

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Alan Cumming is happy he got the chance to reprise his role as Kurt Wagner, a.k.a Nightcrawler, in *Avengers: Doomsday *after his "terrible" experience shooting *X2: X-Men United*. **

The 60-year-old actor revealed in a recent PEOPLE interview that he "just finished" filming his *Doomsday* scenes earlier this month. **

"I just came back. It was amazing," Cumming told the outlet. "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 [*Doomsday*], great film. I love the film."

Halle Berry as Storm and Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler in 'X2'.

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The *Traitors* host explained that he was "miserable" while shooting *X2*, which he said was "awful for a variety of reasons that I have talked about at length" over the years.

Cumming has stated in the past that he disliked working on the 2003 X-Men sequel, due in part to having to spend over five hours in the makeup chair to bring his character to life and on set difficulties with the film's controversial director, Bryan Singer. He previously alleged that the *X2* cast staged an intervention for Singer in his 2018 memoir,* Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life. ***

Thankfully, Cumming had the opposite experience on the *Doomsday* set. "It was actually really great to go back," he said. "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. And everyone was really nice."

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Cumming noted that he got all of his *Doomsday* scenes in advance so that he could return in time for a new season of *The Traitors*.

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"I got it done really quickly because I couldn't go, because of* The Traitors, *when most of my scenes were being shot," he elaborated. "So I squashed them all together, and got a green screen and various things and little scenes of people here and there. But it was pretty stealthy."

Still, Cumming noted that he got a bit of time to "practice with stuntmen" in order to properly step back into Nightcrawler's teleporting shoes. "I would've liked to have been there for weeks and weeks," he remarked. "I wasn't there for very long at all, so that was also good."

Alan Cumming attends the 36th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Film Awards on January 3, 2025.

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Cumming is one of several members of Fox's X-Men trilogy who will be reprising their roles onscreen in *Doomsday *alongside James Marsden (Cyclops), Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier/Professor X), Ian McKellen (Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), and Kelsey Grammer (Hank McCoy/Beast). Channing Tatum, who played Gambit in *Deadpool & Wolverine*, will also finally join the team.

While details surrounding the film's plot remain under tight wraps, we know that it will mark Robert Downey Jr.'s official return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe following Tony Stark/Iron Man's death in *Avengers: Endgame*. This time around, he will play big bad Victor von Doom, a.k.a Doctor Doom, in both *Doomsday* and its 2027 follow-up, *Secret Wars*.

Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige previously revealed that *Secret Wars* is set to "really leads us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men." Although, he noted at the time that the entire team will be recast.**

*Doomsday* arrives in theaters on Dec. 18, 2026, with Secret Wars dropping the following year on Dec. 17, 2027.

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