Throughout a current interview with Entertainment Weekly reflecting on his lengthy profession in Hollywood, Alan Cumming cited 2003’s X2: X-Males United as “the gayest movie [he’s] ever carried out.”
“Oh, I feel the X-Males movie I’m in is the gayest movie that I’ve ever carried out, and that’s me saying that. It’s obtained a queer director, numerous queer actors in it. I like the truth that one thing so mainstream and so within the comedian e book world is so queer,” Cumming informed EW. “I feel, in a approach, these kinds of movies actually assist individuals perceive queerness, as a result of you possibly can handle it in a creative approach, and everyone seems to be much less frightened of the idea. It’s an allegory about queerness, about individuals having these nice presents and actually nice, highly effective issues that they’ve to cover to exist. Queer individuals perceive what that’s all about.”
In a filmography that features The L Phrase, Cabaret, Josie and the Pussycats, Schmigadoon! and Spice World, singling out the second X-Males movie as his “gayest” could appear to be a eccentric alternative, however he isn’t improper.
The franchise’s mutant metaphor has all the time spoken well to queer audiences, inspiring quite a few queer readings of the X-Males and its beloved characters through the years. In X2, the scene by which Iceman reveals his mutant powers to his parents is so unsubtly coded, you’d must be willfully obtuse to not learn it as an allegory for popping out. And it’s maybe particularly prescient to listen to Cumming talk about that from the angle of getting performed Nightcrawler—a personality who has each usually been the topic of queer readings together with his relationship with Wolverine, but additionally comes from a queer household himself by his moms Mystique and Future, a indisputable fact that was all the time supposed to be the case however was solely recently officially acknowledged within the comics.
That mentioned, given every thing we’ve learned about Bryan Singer within the years since X2—and specifically about his behavior on set throughout X2‘s filming—possibly we don’t have to provide him factors for contributing to Cumming’s notion of the film because the gayest work he’s been a part of.
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