Man. Just when I thought I could finally leave the Marvel cinematographic universe behind, they went ahead and added Alan Cumming to their Infinity Gauntlet proverbial … and just like that, I am go back up.
Let me explain. I’ve been a fan of the MCU for some time now; I admit, to the probable horror of all the purists who read this, which I do not know extremely the comics themselves, but I looked at the four initial phases of the religiously MCU and even I managed to integrate into a chronological return during the locking of COVVI-19 in 2020. Frankly, for a long time, it was my currency. job Square with the MCU, until it is not. I don’t need to get started in all the specifics of how the proverbial sausage is made, but once I was no longer professionally forced to follow the MCU, I am just a sort of stopped, because honestly? I was sort of boring and outdated.
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At some point, any involvement in the MCU felt like homework – and by thatI mean that to look A McU project, I had to look at as, five others to even understand what was going on. It was too important for me, a person subject to episodes of intellectual laziness which makes me turn a “Vanderpump Rules” marathon for the millionth time. NOW? Everything is different. In a Stream live on YouTubeMarvel Studios announced that the members of the distribution by showing their names on the back of the chairs “on the set”, and on the basis of everything I told you to this point, imagine my shock when I learned that Alan Cumming, one of my favorite actors of all time, will appear in “Avengers: Doomsday”. This, to put it frankly, rulesBecause Cumming is not only one of the most talented artists who work today. He could also be the most fun performer today.
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Alan Cumming understands that the performance is fun – and this is precisely what the MCU needs
The first big news that we obtained on “Avengers: Doomsday” was that Robert Downey Jr. will return to MCU as Doctor Doomresolutely not A new fun; Downey Jr. won an Oscar in 2024 to “Oppenheimer” and seemed to have left the cinematographic universe permanently, and honestly, it was like a huge disappointment that the very dead Tony Stark returned to the MCU as a different character without apparent reason other than “wow, look at that!” The really, Really Good news about Alan Cumming joining the MCU is that it makes the projects fun, fresh and exciting, and it is exactly the kind of shot in the arm that this company needs.
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Cumming, a guy who has once published a perfume simply called “cumming” and exploits a super inclusive cabaret space in New York called Cumming Club, knows the true meaning of the word “camp”, and to quote Jenna Maroney on “30 rock”, it seems that he “lives in theater in daily life”. From “Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion” to “Josie and the Pussycats” in its longtime role on “The Good Wife” and its current accommodation concert on “The Planors” – which earned him two Emmys – Cumming brings a feeling of fantasy to everything he touches, and he always Makes a better concept that he has the right to be. (For the love of God, it is quite good on “The Planoirs” as an exaggerated version of Himself that him almost makes you believe that he has this castle.)
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We do not know, to date, precisely Who Alan Cumming will play in “Avengers: Doomsday”, but based on the fact that the X-Men are finally back in the Marvel family on the screen and a whole bunch of actors in this franchise are also ready to come back, it is probably Go to play Nightcrawler, his evil teleportation mutant “X2: X-Men United”. Although Cumming has publicly said he didn’t like to work on “X2” Due to the difficult working environment, describing itself as a “miserable blue mutant” – which was, most likely, that the film was led by the director in disgrace Bryan Singer – he Also Recently described “X2” as the “most gay film [he’s] Never done “in an interview with Weekly entertainmentSo maybe he had the impression that he could go back to this universe now that the singer is out of the image.
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The main thing here is that Cumming is a great pleasure. He is an incredibly talented artist in essentially all the ways that matter – he is just as phenomenal on stage in programs like “cabaret” as on the big or small screen – but he also does everything he is in fun and irreverent and even joyful, and he is Exactly Which needs this next Marvel cinematographic universe project. We need all this to be a little less serious and a little more Campy, and no one can do it like Cumming.
