During a late interview withEntertainment Weeklyreflecting on his long career in Hollywood , Alan Cumming cited 2003 ’s X2 : 10 - Men United as “ the gayest film [ he ’s ] ever done . ”
“ Oh , I think the X - Men moving picture I ’m in is the gayest film that I ’ve ever done , and that ’s me say that . It ’s got a queer director , quite a little of gay actor in it . I love the fact that something so mainstream and so in the comical book world is so queer , ” Cumming told EW . “ I think , in a way , those sorts of films really assist people interpret quirk , because you could come up to it in an aesthetic mode , and everyone is less scared of the concept . It ’s an allegory about homoeroticism , about people having these great gifts and really great , powerful things that they have to obliterate to exist . rummy citizenry translate what that ’s all about . ”
In a filmography that includes The L Word , Cabaret , Josie and the Pussycats , Schmigadoon ! and Spice World , singling out the second X - Men motion-picture show as his “ gayest ” may seem like a eccentric selection , but he is n’t awry .
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The franchise ’s mutant metaphor has alwaysspoken well to peril audiences , enliven numerous queer reading of the X - gentleman’s gentleman and its beloved type over the yr . In X2 , the panorama in whichIceman reveal his mutant powers to his parentsis so unsubtly coded , you ’d have to be wilfully obtuse not to read it as an allegory for coming out . And it ’s perhaps peculiarly prescient to hear Cumming discourse that from the perspective of having played Nightcrawler — a case who has both often been the matter of queer readings with his relationship with Wolverine , but also arrive from a queer mob himself through his mothers Mystique and Destiny , a fact that was always intend to be the case but was onlyrecently officially acknowledgedin the comics .
That said , give everything we’velearned about Bryan Singerin the class since X2 — and in particular about hisbehavior on setduring X2 ’s filming — maybe we do n’t have to give him points for lead to Cumming ’s sensing of the movie as the gayest work he ’s been part of .
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