Alan Cumming has dubbed 2003’s ‘X2: X-Males United’ the “gayest movie” he is “ever completed”.
The 59-year-old actor – who got here out publicly in 1998 – performed the mutant Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner within the blockbuster, which additionally starred the likes of Sirs Patrick Stewart, 83, and Ian McKellen, 85, and was helmed by Bryan Singer, 58.
And the ‘Spice World’ actor loves how the flick educates folks about “queerness” in an “inventive method”.
He advised Leisure Weekly: “Oh, I believe the X-Males movie I am in is the gayest movie that I’ve ever completed, and that is me saying that. It is bought a queer director, numerous queer actors in it. I like the truth that one thing so mainstream and so within the comedian ebook world is so queer. I believe, in a method, these kinds of movies actually assist folks perceive queerness, as a result of you’ll be able to tackle it in a creative method, and everyone seems to be much less petrified of the idea. It is an allegory about queerness, about folks having these nice items and actually nice, highly effective issues that they’ve to cover to exist. Queer folks perceive what that is all about.”
Elsewhere, Alan revealed he nonetheless will get folks coming as much as him saying his well-known catchphrase, “I am invincible”, from the 1995 Bond movie ‘GoldenEye’.
He mentioned: “It is a type of movies that folks nonetheless freak out about. Perhaps it has to do with the online game, which is iconic. Folks at all times ask me to say, ‘I am invincible’ — nonetheless shout at me on the street and the whole lot. It’s nice to have a catchphrase. However one of many issues I at all times keep in mind is there was a hair firm sponsoring the movie and so they’d put these things in our hair to ‘activate’ it, after which 20 minutes later did one thing else to it. They’d actually come to your dressing room and say, ‘Alan, may you come have your hair activated, please?’ I simply thought, ‘Oh, that have to be what they do in these huge blockbuster movies,’ as a result of it was my first huge film.”
He additionally quipped that working with Pierce Brosnan, who performed 007 within the movie, made him realise what a “goofball” the 71-year-old star is.
Alan recalled: “A pair years later, I used to be visiting Pierce [Brosnan, who played James Bond in the movie,] and I noticed he truly had some in his rest room! We had been laughing about it, and he went and bought it and put it in his hair after which on his leg hair and chest hair and was operating round saying, ‘I am activated! I am activated!’ It was so hilarious. I suppose that is what I take into consideration most of that movie: what a goofball Pierce is.”