Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Actuality Tv
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When Emily Nussbaum launched Alan Cumming on the New Yorker Competition, she stated, “Loads of actors gentle up a room, however Alan Cumming is extra of a disco ball—reflecting each doable angle of present enterprise.” Cumming seems in mainstream dramas reminiscent of “The Good Spouse,” and in addition extra indie tasks like his one-man model of “Macbeth”; his performances in musicals reminiscent of “Cabaret” are legendary. He owns an evening membership, and his memoir, “Not My Father’s Son,” was a best-seller. And Cumming performs the host on the Emmy-winning actuality present “The Traitors.” He combines “a dandy Scottish laird—form of James Bond villain, form of eccentric, old style nut who has this huge fort.” Spoiler alert: “It’s purported to be my fort. It’s not.” Nussbaum asks about his perspective on actuality TV earlier than he starred on “Traitors.” “Zero, actually,” Cumming confesses. “I used to be a bit judgy. . . . The factor I don’t like about a variety of these reveals is that they laud and due to this fact encourage unhealthy habits and lack of kindness.” Earlier than “The Traitors,” Cumming’s first brush with actuality tv was on “Who Do You Assume You Are?,” a BBC family tree program that confronted him with stunning secrets and techniques about his circle of relatives. “It made a great memoir, I suppose,” he jokes. “Simply how terrible that was. It was terrible. However, no, I don’t remorse it.”
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