X-Men’s Alan Cumming ‘Excited and Amazed’ to Make Marvel Return

Alan Cumming is “excited and amazed” to return to Marvel in Avengers: Doomsday.

The 60-year-old actor portrayed Nightcrawler in 2003’s X2: X-Males United and is about to reprise his function within the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster, and has now revealed an enormous motive he agreed to return was as a result of the make-up course of to get into character has been streamlined.

Talking with fellow X-Males star Olivia Munn on Collider, Cumming mentioned: “Isn’t it nuts? I’m excited and amazed. It’s been 23 years since I used to be a superhero.”

“I’ve had some make-up assessments already for the function, however what’s nice about it was that earlier than it was about 4 and a half hours to use it, however now it’s solely 90 minutes … Earlier than, all the tattoos had been achieved by hand. They hadn’t selected them earlier than we began filming. Now, they only stick onto my face. It is a recreation changer.”

“I’m going again to being a 60-year-old superhero, and everybody appears actually beautiful.”

The Spy Children star additionally revealed Avengers: Doomsday “begins taking pictures fairly quickly” in London, and teased the movie is “going to be nuts.”

Along with Cumming, different X-Males alums returning for Avengers: Doomsday, which might be adopted by Avengers: Secret Wars in 2027, embrace Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), James Marsden (Cyclops), Kelsey Grammer (Beast) and Rebecca Romijn (Mystique).

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Avengers: Doomsday will see the Avengers, Incredible 4, Thunderbolts and the X-Males group up in an effort to cease the dreaded Physician Doom (Robert Downey Jr.).

Whereas a number of X-Males stars might be returning for Avengers: Doomsday, Halle Berry, who performed Storm from 2000’s X-Males to X-Males: Days of Future Previous in 2014, lately admitted she had no plans to make Marvel films once more.

Requested if she would contemplate coming again to the style, she merely instructed Additional: “Nope!”

Avengers: Doomsday opens in theaters on Might 1, 2026.