Overview

• Alan Cumming has wrapped filming his Nightcrawler scenes for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday and called the experience “really healing” after a fraught initial turn in X2.
• He said that advances in prosthetics cut Nightcrawler’s makeup application from about four and a half hours in 2003 to roughly 90 minutes for Doomsday.
• At 60 years old, Cumming performed stunts and consolidated his on-set work into a condensed schedule around commitments to hosting The Traitors.
• The actor has previously described the X2 production under director Bryan Singer as “miserable” and “abusive,” underscoring the personal significance of his positive return.
• Doomsday brings together legacy X-Men performers and MCU staples in a Russo Brothers–helmed Phase Six installment whose release date remains unsettled, with outlets citing both May 2026 and December 18, 2026.