Marvel Studios is pulling from every corner of its universe for its next big team-up, Avengers: Doomsday, and legacy actors are being roped in too. Fans of Fox’s X-Men saga got a pleasant surprise when a handful of characters joined the Doomsday cast: Sir Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen will reprise their roles as Professor X and Magneto, and they’ll be joined by fan favorites like Rebecca Romijn’s Mystique and Alan Cumming’s Nightcrawler. It’s great to see them return, but it’s also a little unusual. The X-Men cast is a bit older than most of the Doomsday cast, something Cumming himself acknowleged.
“I was learning stunts yesterday for some fight scene, and I just think, I’m 60 years old. 23 years ago, I played that superhero,” the actor recently told Buzzfeed UK. Cumming admitted he was “kind of old for a superhero” even in 2003, when he first appeared as Nightcrawler in X2. “Now I’m back doing it. And that, to me, is hilarious.”
