Alan Cumming is opening up about how playing Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday was actually “really healing” after his “terrible experience” in 2003’s X2: X-Men United .

The actor recently told People at the Televerse 2025 conference that he “just finished” filming the Russo brothers’ highly anticipated Doomsday film, which is set to hit theaters in May 2026.

“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 was a terrible experience when I did it the first time,” Cumming said. “A great film, great film. I love the film.”

Alan Cumming is opening up about how playing Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday was actually “really healing” after his “terrible experience”

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