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,

Alan Cumming is happy he got the chance to reprise his role as Kurt Wagner, a.k.a Nightcrawler, in Avengers: Doomsday after his “terrible” experience shooting X2: X-Men United . The 60-year-old actor revealed in a recent PEOPLE interview that he “just finished” filming his Doomsday scenes earlier this month.

Alan Cumming was happy to get a do-over playing Nightcrawler in “Avengers: Doomsday”. In a recent interview with People, “The Traitors” host said it was “really healing” to return to the role of the teleporting mutant after having a “terrible” time during his first pass at the character in 2003’s “X2.