Throughout a latest 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 accomplished.”
“Oh, I feel the X-Males movie I’m in is the gayest movie that I’ve ever accomplished, and that’s me saying that. It’s bought a queer director, a lot of queer actors in it. I like the truth that one thing so mainstream and so within the comedian ebook world is so queer,” Cumming informed EW. “I feel, in a means, these kinds of movies actually assist folks perceive queerness, as a result of you may deal with it in an inventive means, and everyone seems to be much less terrified of the idea. It’s an allegory about queerness, about folks having these nice presents and actually nice, highly effective issues that they’ve to cover to exist. Queer folks 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” might appear to be a eccentric alternative, however he isn’t flawed.
The franchise’s mutant metaphor has at all times spoken well to queer audiences, inspiring quite a few queer readings of the X-Males and its beloved characters over time. In X2, the scene during which Iceman reveals his mutant powers to his parents is so unsubtly coded, you’d need to be willfully obtuse to not learn it as an allegory for popping out. And it’s maybe particularly prescient to listen to Cumming focus on 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 in addition comes from a queer household himself by his moms Mystique and Future, a incontrovertible fact that was at all times supposed to be the case however was solely recently officially acknowledged within the comics.
That mentioned, given all the things we’ve learned about Bryan Singer within the years since X2—and particularly about his behavior on set throughout X2‘s filming—possibly we don’t have to present 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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