Alan Cumming says this surprising film is his gayest ever

Alan Cumming is a bisexual icon, and many of his films are an indelible part of gay culture, but what film does he think is his gayest? As clickbait-y articles love to say, the answer might surprise you!

Cumming has starred in many campy and queer films, including Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Spice World, Josie and the Pussycats, Burlesque, and Battle of the Sexes... but despite all of those iconic titles, he surprisingly named another one of his movies as his "gayest film that I've ever done."

"I think the X-Men film I'm in is the gayest film that I've ever done, and that's me saying that," Cumming told Entertainment Weekly for a piece about his queerest projects.

"It's got a queer director, lots of queer actors in it. I love the fact that something so mainstream and so in the comic book world is so queer," he continued. "I think, in a way, those sorts of films really help people understand queerness, because you can address it in an artistic way, and everyone is less scared of the concept."

Cumming starred in the 2003 movie X2: X-Men United, directed by Bryan Singer, a gay man who has been accused by multiple men of sexually assaulting them when they were underage.

Cumming played the mutant Nightcrawler in the film, and was joined by other queer actors like Ian McKellen as Magneto and Anna Paquin as Rogue.