Alan Cumming Spills On His ‘Gayest Film’ To Date: ‘And That’s Me Saying That!’

Alan Cumming revealed why he thinks “X2: X-Men United” is the “gayest film” he’s ever made.

“And that’s me saying that,” the actor, who starred as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in the 2003 “X-Men” sequel, recently told Entertainment Weekly.

He continued: “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.”

Cumming, who is bisexual, added that films like the 2003 box-office hit “really help people understand queerness.”

“[That’s] because you can address it in an artistic way, and everyone is less scared of the concept,” Cumming explained.

“It’s an allegory about queerness, about people having these great gifts and really great, powerful things that they have to hide to exist. Queer people understand what that’s all about,” he added.

The actor hasn’t always liked being part of the superhero film franchise, telling “The Graham Norton Show” in 2020 that he was once paid “lots of money” to fly to a fan convention in Milton Keynes, England.

“There were lots of people and everyone was very nice, but you had to wait to get paid in cash — it was mortifying. I didn’t like it at all, and I felt like a bit of a whore,” he said.