Alan Cumming Calls Marvel’s ‘X2: X-Men United’ His “Gayest Film”
deadline.comAlan Cumming is reflecting on his past film roles and has a particular thing to say about 2003’s X2: X-Men United. The Traitors host played the role of Nightcrawler in the sequel to the 2000 Bryan Singer film X-Men.
In a new interview, Cumming talked about why this superhero film was so important. “I think the X-Men film I’m in is the gayest film that I’ve ever done, and that’s me saying that,” Cumming told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s got a queer director, lots of queer actors in it.
I love the fact that something so mainstream and so in the comic book world is so queer.” He continued, “I think, in a way, those sorts of films really help people understand queerness, because you can address it in an artistic way, and everyone is less scared of the concept.
It’s an allegory about queerness, about people having these great gifts and really great, powerful things that they have to hide to exist.
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