Alan Cumming is opening up about reprising his X-Men role in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday .

The 60-year-old actor and host will be back as Nightcrawler in the next installment of the MCU superhero movies, over 20 years after he last played the character in X2 .

In a recent interview, Alan opened up about how reprising the role in the upcoming movie was healing after a bad experience filming X2 .

“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 told People . “A great film, great film. I love the film.”

Alan added that he was “miserable” while filming X2 , saying it was “awful for a variety of r

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