Marvel hasn’t been having the smoothest run with its latest phases. Given that Jonathan Majors was set to lead the new era, only to be dropped after his assault conviction, one can understand why there might be trepidation about the upcoming mega-blockbuster Avengers: Doomsday.
Robert Downey Jr. is set to play Victor Von Doom in a deal likely as valuable as the GDP of a small nation, but he’s not the only one returning to the superhero world. Alan Cumming will be reprising his role as Nightcrawler, who he last played in the X-Men sequel X2.
All of this to say that Alan’s recent comments to Gold Derby about his on-set experience are raising some eyebrows. Having recently wrapped, he told the publication, “I did the entire film in isolation. Lots of green screen, face replacement. They even gave characters fake names.”
“I don’t know who I was acting with half the time,” he added. “I broke the internet by mentioning something once, but honestly, I might have got it wrong.”
The quotes quickly made the rounds, with some passing judgement on the likely result of such isolation and secret-keeping:
Some brought up Ian McKellen, who previously admitted that he cried on the set of The Hobbit due to the use of green screen. “In order to shoot the dwarves and a large Gandalf, we couldn’t be in the same set. All I had for company was 13 photographs of the dwarves on top of stands with little lights – whoever’s talking flashes up,” he said. “I cried, actually. I cried. Then I said out loud, ‘This is not why I became an actor.'” Incidentally, Ian will also be reprising his X-Men role in Avengers: Doomsday.
It is worth noting that Alan also recently gave an interview to People in which he said of the experience, “I just came back. It was amazing. 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, great film. I love the film.”
He also suggested that his schedule on The Traitors was the reason for his isolation, saying, “I got it done really quickly because I couldn’t go, because of The Traitors, when most of my scenes were being shot…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.”
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