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Alan Cumming calls X-Men sequel X2 the 'gayest' film that he's ever made: 'It's an allegory about queerness'
Daily Mail ^ | June 17, 2024 | Kevin Kayhart

Posted on 06/17/2024 7:41:29 AM PDT by Angelino97

Alan Cumming has declared that the 2003 X-Men movie X2 is 'the gayest film that I've ever done.'

The Scottish actor and television personality followed up by adding, 'And that's me saying that,' during the conversation to promote his reality competition series The Traitors.

'It's got a queer director, lots of queer actors in it,' he said while making his case to Entertainment Weekly. 'I love the fact that something so mainstream and so in the comic book world is so queer.'

He went on to explain, '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.'

'It's an allegory about queerness, about people having these great gifts and really great, powerful things that they have to hide to exist,' Cumming, 59, added. 'Queer people understand what that's all about.'

In the film Cumming plays Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler, a bright blue mutant with the ability to teleport himself and others instantly from one location to another.


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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: fdrq; gaypredator; groomer; grooming; hollywood; movies; preyingonchildren; queers; sexmen
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To: Ciaphas Cain

The goal is to destroy all of the franchises that were once part of the American fabric. It’s not to make money.


41 posted on 06/17/2024 9:04:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: No name given

The Christopher Nolan Batman Trilogy was excellent. Not just great superhero movies but just overall excellent films, especially The Dark Knight.


42 posted on 06/17/2024 9:07:02 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I heard about it.

We are so screwed.


43 posted on 06/17/2024 9:09:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Trump's experience? We're next.)
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To: dfwgator

I think you’re a little off the mark but in the ballpark. The goal is to keep the “franchise” to make money, but destroy the mythology which they think patriarchal square toxicitiy and recreate it in their own image, cast it in a new light.

“Put a chick in it, and make it gay and lame”


44 posted on 06/17/2024 9:11:00 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Angelino97

I saw this movie and didn’t think it was gay. A little stupid and farfetched maybe, but gay? No.

My favorite was X-Men: Days of the Future Passed. Still, I don’t want to see gays or lesbians. Just shut up and act!


45 posted on 06/17/2024 10:07:09 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Yeah, ABBA really gave themselves away as uber gay when Agnetha married Björn and then Anni-Frid married Benny.


46 posted on 06/17/2024 10:07:46 AM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s been out for a decade. You probably saw it already. It grossed an obscene amount of money. 407 million. It was released in 2003.


47 posted on 06/17/2024 10:23:10 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: PGR88

lol. It was released in 2003. Why doesn’t anybody read the article? It’s there for a reason.


48 posted on 06/17/2024 10:24:21 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: butlerweave

It made 407 million. You probably saw it and didn’t realize it.


49 posted on 06/17/2024 10:25:10 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Alas Babylon!
I saw this movie and didn’t think it was gay. A little stupid and farfetched maybe, but gay? No.

Spot-on.

And it's rather desperate and pathetic how he forwards the idea that it's a gay movie because gays are super-powered outsiders.

Hey, Alan! I don't thing actually being able to execute an R. Lee Ermey quote from FMJ qualifies as a super power!

50 posted on 06/17/2024 10:25:29 AM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Really? 407 million it’s made.


51 posted on 06/17/2024 10:26:17 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: pepsi_junkie

So did Star Wars.


52 posted on 06/17/2024 11:23:14 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: packrat35

Not like Doctor Who. They have inserted musical theater numbers into the middle of the shows, the Doctor is hanging out in gay bars and making out with men, the big-baddie so far this season is an over-the-top drag queen ... it’s all gay, all the time.


53 posted on 06/17/2024 11:44:52 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: pepsi_junkie

The newest show in Star War show gay witches using force powers giving birth without men. It is beyond gay. You would have to see it to be believed.


54 posted on 06/17/2024 12:08:15 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Angelino97

Mutants were the 60’s version of homosexuals.

Stan Lee even said so himself.


55 posted on 06/17/2024 4:22:17 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Abba is/was two heterosexual married couples.


56 posted on 06/18/2024 9:20:27 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde
Abba is/was two heterosexual married couples.

Maybe, but the two men projected effeminate homosexual dress that became more prevalent in the 1970s as the power brokers in the Irritainment Industry pushed their ideology.

57 posted on 06/18/2024 9:28:43 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

“Glam rock” and the bisexual vogue were already going strong when ABBA came on the scene. ABBA wasn’t starting or leading that. They were just following Seventies showbiz fashion trends.


58 posted on 06/18/2024 9:34:49 AM PDT by x
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To: x

Glam rock targeted adults and wasn’t mainstream. Abba’s clothing and style aimed at younger viewers and listeners.


59 posted on 06/18/2024 9:47:44 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Glam rock was very mainstream in Europe. Very few of them made it big in America until glam metal bands started covering them in the 80s. But it was huge in England and the rest of Europe, including Sweden, where Abba is from.


60 posted on 06/18/2024 9:53:21 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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