{"id":73599,"date":"2025-04-04T23:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=73599"},"modified":"2025-04-09T22:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:39:24","slug":"alan-cumming-on-avengers-doomsday-filming-nightcrawler-makeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=73599","title":{"rendered":"Alan Cumming On AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Filming &amp; Nightcrawler Makeup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JennaAndFriends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Jenna &amp; Friends<\/em><\/a>, Nightcrawler actor Alan Cumming revealed that he will indeed be wearing makeup as the teleporting mutant for Marvel Studios&#8217; <em>Avengers: Doomsday<\/em>. With cameras set to roll on Sunday, Cumming confirmed that he already completed makeup tests during pre-production and that they are able to get the process done in under 90 minutes, compared to the nearly 4 hours it took while filming <em>X2: X-Men United<\/em> (2003). Instead of creating Kurt Wagner&#8217;s facial scars by hand, they are now 3D printed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZqI93EemSSs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Cumming joins a list of returning X-Men actors in Marvel&#8217;s upcoming juggernaut of a film, led by Robert Downey Jr. as the villainous Doctor Doom. They include Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden and Kelsey Grammer, along with Channing Tatum, who <a href=\"https:\/\/extratv.com\/2025\/04\/04\/channing-tatum-on-avengers-news-all-i-was-guaranteed-was-a-chair-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">may or may not<\/a> be portraying Gambit again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Avengers: Doomsday<\/em> arrives in theaters on May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing on Jenna &amp; Friends, Nightcrawler actor Alan Cumming revealed that he will indeed be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[579,60,15,90],"tags":[608,528,232,378,224],"class_list":["post-73599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avengers-doomsday","category-casting","category-crew-talk","category-x-men","tag-alan-cumming","tag-avengers-doomsday","tag-casting","tag-nightcrawler","tag-x-men"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ala-cum-nig-x-men.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}