Alan Cumming recently finished filming his scenes for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday, and he has described the experience as "amazing" and "healing." The actor is reprising the role of the blue-skinned mutant Kurt Wagner (aka Nightcrawler) more than two decades after his debut in 2003's X-Men sequel, X2.

Alan Cumming called his experience reprising his role as Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday 'really healing' after the 'miserable' filming of X2.

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.