Alan Cumming is thrilled to re-enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe! The forged for Marvel‘s upcoming Avengers: Doomsday was introduced on a stay stream, and the Traitors US host was a part of it as Nightcrawler. He took to social media to have a good time the thrilling information.
The Instagram submit featured a video of him practising his Nightcrawler strikes and a picture of the character within the subsequent slide. “By no means say by no means!” he captioned the submit utilizing the hashtag #AvengersDoomsday and tagged Marvel Studios’s official deal with.
Cumming first performed the comedian guide position in 2003’s X2: X-Males United. Greater than 20 years later, he’ll reprise the character and reunite along with his co-stars, together with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden.
Stewart performed Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, within the 2003 movie whereas McKellen portrayed Magneto. Romijn and Marsden performed Mystique and Cyclops, respectively.
In 2024, Cumming recalled the expertise of taking part in Nighcrawler in an interview with Leisure Weekly. “I believe the X-Males movie I’m in is the gayest movie that I’ve ever carried out, and that’s me saying that,” he advised the outlet on the time.
The actor revealed that the challenge had a queer director and lots of queer actors regardless of being a mainstream superhero manufacturing. “The comedian guide world is so queer,” Cumming added. He defined that these movies do an important job of creating individuals perceive queerness.
The truth that the neighborhood is portrayed artistically makes it simpler to grasp and fewer “scary” as an idea. He in contrast superheroes to the queer neighborhood. He defined how each have a particular energy or particular reward that they conceal from the world to exist usually.
“Queer individuals perceive what that’s all about,” he added on the time. The star-studded upcoming Avengers movie can even mark Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr.’s return to the MCU after Iron Man; he’ll painting the villain, Physician Doom.
Avengers: Doomsday will hit the theaters on Could 1, 2026.