Nightcrawler Actor Alan Cumming On “Game Changing” Makeup Process For AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Return

Of all of the actors introduced as being a part of final week’s large Avengers: Doomsday‘s forged reveal live-stream, Alan Cumming may need been essentially the most stunning.

Cumming made his one and solely look in twentieth Century Fox’s X-Males franchise as Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, in X2, however declined the studio’s provide to reprise the function for the third movie as a result of he had no real interest in sitting via the arduous make-up course of once more.

Wagner did not present up in once more till Kodi Smit-McPhee took over as a youthful tackle the character in X-Males: Apocalypse.

There’s been some hypothesis that Cumming might solely be lending his voice to a completely CG tackle Nightcrawler, however the actor has now confirmed that this won’t be the case, as he is already accomplished a make-up check.

“Is not it nuts? I am excited and amazed,” Cumming tells Collider when requested about his return for Doomsday. “It has been 23 years since I used to be a superhero. I’ve had some make-up exams 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 is solely 90 minutes. Earlier than, all the tattoos have been accomplished by hand. They hadn’t selected them earlier than we began filming. Now, they simply stick onto my face. It is a recreation changer. I am going again to being a 60-year-old superhero, and everybody appears actually beautiful.”

Cumming spoke about his function in X-Males 2 and his frustration with the make-up course of shortly earlier than it was introduced that he’d be again for the following Avengers film.

“The character is admittedly fascinating, the message of the movie (tolerance of others who’re completely different from us) was very well timed and weird for a Hollywood blockbuster, however the true drag was having to spend over 4 hours a day having two males poke my face,” Cumming posted to his web site . “Then there have been the harnesses for the tail and for flying, the toes, the fingers — which made going to the john a bunch effort, the enamel, the lenses, oh God don’t get me began.”

Cumming lately took to Instagram to share a enjoyable response to the casting information, captioning his temporary video, “By no means Say By no means.”

Cumming will probably be joined by fellow OG X-Males Ian McKellen (Magneto), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), James Marsden (Cyclops), Kelsey Grammer (Beast), and Rebecca Romijn (Mystique). You possibly can try the complete (for now) forged listing under.

• Paul Rudd as Ant-Man

• Simu Liu as Shang-Chi

• Tom Hiddleston as Loki

• Lewis Pullman as Sentry

• Florence Pugh as Yelena

• Danny Ramirez as Falcon

• Ian McKellen as Magneto

• Sebastian Stan as Bucky

• Winston Duke as M’Baku

• Chris Hemsworth as Thor

• Kelsey Grammer as Beast

• James Marsden as Cyclops

• Channing Tatum as Gambit

• Wyatt Russell as U.S. Agent

• Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm

• Rebecca Romijn as Mystique

• Patrick Stewart as Professor X

• Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler

• Letitia Wright as Black Panther

• Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor

• Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards

• Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost

• Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm

• David Harbour as Purple Guardian

• Robert Downey Jr as Physician Doom

• Ebon Moss-Bachrach as The Factor

• Anthony Mackie as Captain America