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Alan Cumming said he doesn't understand the plot of 'Avengers: Doomsday'
Alan Cumming hasn’t been shy about his baffling experience filming Avengers: Doomsday. The popular Nightcrawler actor and Traitors host recently admitted he basically has no idea what they filmed.
Cumming, who is reprising the role of Nightcrawler for the first time since 2003’s X2, admitted on SiriusXM that Marvel kept him almost entirely in the dark about what he was actually filming.
Alan Cumming admitted he doesn’t fully understand the plot of Avengers: Doomsday and only acted with Florence Pugh’s stunt double
“To be honest, I don’t fully understand the plot,” Cumming said, adding a crew member tried to talk him through a scene involving giant robots.
“Thank you so much, but just tell me where I point my whatever I point, and I’ll go do that. I just know I’m here to run around,” Cumming responded.
Cumming also detailed how he never actually filmed alongside Florence Pugh despite sharing scenes with her character.
“I’ve never met you, but you lay on top of me, or your body double did,” Cumming told her when they met at the Emmy Awards earlier this month.
“Yeah, I lay on top of you as well, but it was your body double,” Pugh apparently responded.
Avengers: Doomsday reunites Cumming with fellow X-Men veterans Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, and Rebecca Romijn when it hits theaters on December 18.
Alongside the returning X-Men actors, Avengers: Doomsday also stars Robert Downey Jr. — controversially returning to the franchise to play the villainous Doctor Doom after starring as Iron Man for a decade — Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Pedro Pascal, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, Florence Pugh, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Channing Tatum, Tom Hiddleston, Sebastian Stan, and many more.