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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Returning to Play Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday Was Nothing Short of Therapeutic for Alan Cumming · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Alan Cumming is one of several of the original X
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  Speaker 2: Men returning for the upcoming Marvel movie Avengers Doomsday, twenty
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  Speaker 2: two years after he played Nightcrawler in X two, and
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  Speaker 2: while several of his castmates expressed joy over reprising their roles,
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  Speaker 2: for Alan, it was genuinely therapeutic. He tells people. It
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  Speaker 2: was really healing to go back to something that was
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  Speaker 2: a terrible experience when I did it the first time.
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  Speaker 2: X two was miserable and awful for a variety of
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  Speaker 2: reasons that I've talked about at length. And I'm sixty
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  Speaker 2: years old, so I never thought I'd been doing stunts
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  Speaker 2: playing a superhero. So that felt great, and everyone was
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  Speaker 2: really nice. It was actually really incredible to go back
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  Speaker 2: and rewrite that chapter. That's allan coming on returning to
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  Speaker 2: play Nightcrawler in Avengers Doomsday, which his theaters in December
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty sixth.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.