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 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.” “I just came back,” …

Or, maybe there’s some kind of intense, gory scene he’s involved in. The only spoiler Cumming let slip about Doomsday was that he hits Pedro Pascal’s Reed over the head with something. Whatever Nightcrawler’s role is in the new MCU movie, I’m all for it!