Alan Cumming is back for “Avengers: Doomsday,” revising his role as the blue-skinned, sword-wielding, teleporting Nightcrawler. While Cumming famously didn’t love his time on “X2” (the character did not return for “X-Men: The Last Stand,” the actor said his second turn in the pointy ears was a healing experience.

Avengers: Doomsday star Alan Cumming has talked more about returning as Nightcrawler in the upcoming Marvel Studios movie, but says he spent much of his time on set in "isolation." Read on for

Alan Cumming is opening up about how playing Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday was actually "really healing" after his "terrible experience" in 2003's X2: X-Men United. The actor recently told People at the Televerse 2025 conference that he "just finished" filming the Russo brothers' highly anticipated Doomsday film,