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Alan Cumming feels a "duty" to support members of the LGBTQ community. The 59-year-old actor - who came out as bisexual in 1998 - has revealed that he's keen to lend his support to "young queer people who are feeling that they don't belong". Alan told PEOPLE: "As a member of that community and a proud one, I feel I have a duty actually as someone who has a platform to look back and remember what it felt like. "I didn't feel that there were role models and people who were well known speaking out [when I was growing up]. "Why wouldn't I want to help young queer people who are feeling that they d...
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Alan Cumming was shocked to discover that his scrotum had aged. The 58-year-old star - who is currently on the road telling intimate stories from his life with his 'Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age' tour - explained that the only time he ever feels as if he is actually approaching 60 is when he visits his dermatologist but panicked when he noticed something unusual "downstairs" during a routine check. Speaking on UK TV show 'This Morning', he said: "The one time I do feel my age is when I go to the dermatologist, I'm pale and I go a lot. I get these mole checks and so one time I was in the s...
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Alan Cumming knows it is "annoying" he's never "struggled" in his career. The 'Traitors US' host refuses to pretend he ever "had it hard" in his professional life because he's always had plenty of opportunities lined up in high-profile projects and never had to worry about where the next job came from. He told The Times newspaper: “Young actors ask me, ‘What was it like when you were struggling?’ and I have to say, ‘I don’t know.’ "I made my film, theatre and TV debuts before I left drama school. Annoying. "My first job in London was my own show, 'Victor and Barry', at the Donmar Warehouse, qu...
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Alan Cumming admits that it was a "complicated" decision to hand back his OBE. The 58-year-old actor announced on Friday (27.01.23) that he was to return the honour he was awarded in 2009 over the "toxicity" of the British Empire. Alan is grateful for the "incredible" reaction to his decision as he elaborated on his choice. He told People: "I mean, first of all, I didn't ever expect so much attention about it. "It's been really positive. People really understood why it's complicated, it's complex, it's not a black or white thing." The 'X-Men' star added: "I tried to say that in my statement, a...
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Alan Cumming has joined the advisory council of an animal charity after a search for a missing chimpanzee ended with the beloved primate being found chained up in a basement. 'The Good Wife' star offered a $20,000 reward to find Tonka after working with him on 1997 family comedy 'Buddy' - based on the real-life story of 1920s socialite Gertrude Lintz, who raised primates as part of her family - and he was eventually discovered chained up in a property in Missouri in June before being handed over to the Save the Chimps charity in Florida. Alan has now teamed up with the charity which is caring ...
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Alan Cumming has offered a $10,000 reward to find his missing chimpanzee co-star. The 57-year-old actor has teamed up with animal rights organisation PETA to help track down Tonka, a creature he became "good friends" with after filming 1997 family comedy 'Buddy' - which was based on the real-life story of 1920s socialite Gertrude Lintz, who raised monkeys as part of her family - because the primate has mysteriously disappeared. Alan said in a statement "During the months we filmed together, baby Tonka and I became good friends, playing and grooming each other and just generally larking about. ...
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Alan Cumming believes the “secret” to a happy marriage is communication. The ‘Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion’ star believes the key to having a successful union with New Yorker cartoonist Grant Shaffer - his husband of 14 years - is not letting issues “fester too long” and actually airing them with one other. The 56-year-old actor told the American version of Closer magazine: “I think the secret is that we talk to each other, we listen to each other. If anything is wrong, we don’t let it fester too long and we actually speak about it. We met when we were 39, so we were both grown-ups ...
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Alan Cumming thinks Hollywood has saved his life. The 56-year-old actor was feeling suicidal before he landed the role of Boris Grishenko, a geeky computer programmer, in the James Bond film 'GoldenEye', and he looks back on his casting as a life-defining moment. Reflecting on the day he auditioned for the role, he explained: "It was one of the worst days of my life actually. I felt really, really, really low. I just now think, 'Oh you poor little thing, you could've said I am feeling suicidal today.'" Alan now admits his life was transformed by his starring role in the 1995 film. The actor to...
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Adele left Jeremy O. Harris devastated when she left his play before it started because it was too long. The playwright was stunned to learn the 'Easy on Me' singer was keen to see his Off-Broadway production 'Daddy' and managed to obtain tickets for her at the last minute, but he was horrified when she walked out of the theatre 10 minutes before curtain up because the smell from the swimming pool used in the set was making her feel nauseous. After recounting how the production was sold out but he ultimately secured six tickets for the 33-year-old superstar on the same weekend she was spotted ...
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Alan Cumming loves "true" insults. The 56-year-old actor has revealed he considers the perfect insult to be something that's "true as well as accurate". Discussing the perfect diss in a Q&A for Graydon Carter’s Air Mail, Alan shared: "I like it when they’re true as well as accurate. "Like, ‘You are a disgrace’ or ‘You are unprofessional and disrespectful.’ I like when you don’t have to be mean, but are so much more hurtful because it is actually true." "Conversely, I really don’t like when someone says something true like ‘You are a w*****’ as an insult when, of course, we all are." Asked for ...
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