Cumming: 'I Don't Fully Understand' Doomsday Plot — SkimNews
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- Alan Cumming told SiriusXM he "doesn't fully understand the plot" of "Avengers: Doomsday" and was never shown the full screenplay by Marvel.
- During filming, a crew member attempted to explain giant robots in a scene to Cumming, who cut him off: "just tell me where I point my, whatever I point. …I just know I'm here to run around."
- Cumming only acted with Florence Pugh's stunt double — and at the Emmys, Pugh revealed she had also used his body double, meaning the two never shared a scene in person.
- Doomsday marks Cumming's first turn as Nightcrawler in 23 years, since his debut in "X2: X-Men United"; Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Romijn, and James Marsden also reprise their X-Men roles.
- Nightcrawler's blue-skinned makeup application dropped from four-and-a-half hours to 90 minutes, with hand-drawn tattoos replaced by pre-made stick-ons — what Cumming called "a game changer."
Why it matters: Cumming's admission that he neither read the screenplay nor shared a frame with Florence Pugh herself — only her stunt double — exposes how modular Marvel blockbuster production has become. With the December 18 release looming and a stacked returning X-Men cast, editors and VFX teams will be stitching together scenes the actors themselves never witnessed, making the tentpole's coherence a post-production responsibility rather than an on-set one.
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