Alan Cumming calls his 'Avengers: Doomsday' experience "really healing"

Alan Cumming is opening up about revisiting his 2003 X2 role, Nightcrawler, in Avengers: Doomsday, currently scheduled to release on December 18, 2026.

He shared with PEOPLE at a panel for The Traitors that he "just finished" shooting earlier this month. "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," he expressed. "A great film, great film. I love the film."

He noted that he was "miserable" during the previous project, adding that it was "awful for a variety of reasons that I have talked about at length," some of which include the lengthy makeup process and issues with the director.

"It was actually really great to go back. And especially, I'm 60 years old. I did not think I would be doing stunts, playing a superhero in my 60s. So that was great," the actor commented. "And everyone was really nice. And I got it done really quickly because I couldn't go, because of The Traitors, when most of my scenes were being shot."