Alan Cumming shares “the gayest film I’ve ever done” & it’s probably not what you’re thinking
The Traitors. Of course, before this, he featured in a variety of theater, TV, and movie roles. Over the weekend, the 59-year-old did a fun interview with Entertainment Weekly in which he reflected on a handful of those roles.
You may have forgotten just how many iconic movies here’s appeared in, including Spice World The Movie, Spy Kids, James Bond hit Goldeneye, and—our personal favorite—Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, to name just a few.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.However, he highlighted a certain comic book blockbuster as the “gayest film” he’d ever done.
That was the X-Men sequel, X2: X-Men United, in 2003. “Oh, I think the X-Men film I’m in is the gayest film that I’ve ever done, and that’s me saying that,” Cumming said.“It’s got a queer director, lots of queer actors in it.
I love the fact that something so mainstream and so in the comic book world is so queer. I think, in a way, those sorts of films really help people understand queerness, because you can address it in an artistic way, and everyone is less scared of the concept.”He continued, “It’s an allegory about queerness, about people having these great gifts and really great, powerful things that they have to hide to exist.
