The X3 Cast Thread

[Kira]

Title: ALAN CUMMING'S PUMPING IRON AND KISSING THE BOYS
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/62454.htm

Good interview. And "the frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millennium"... HAH!

 

[LEX]

Woah...

 

[narrows101]

May issue of Men's Health magazine:

HUGH JACKMAN'S WOLVERINE WORKOUT
The star of X-Men 3 cranks up Metallica and goes a bit crazy when lifting heavy metal. Hugh Jackman reveals the muscle-and-mind tricks that transform him into Wolverine. "Fear holds us back," reveals Jackman. "That's the toughest thing about ageing. With age, people fail more."

Couple of pictures:

http://p220.ezboard.com/fjackmanstablefrm14.showMessage?topicID=374.topic

 

[narrows101]

Check out what he says about X-Men.

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/arts/theater/profiles/16709/

Killer Charm: Alan Cumming

Hollywood has pegged the Scottish actor Alan Cumming as a stock villain and a mutant for hire, but New Yorkers know him as an impish man-about-town and a Broadway darling whose last big role, as the emcee in Cabaret, brought the show to new levels of tawdriness. He returns to Studio 54 this week as Mac the Knife, the slinky inveterate criminal at the center of The Threepenny Opera. Cumming talked to Boris Kachka about his new role and life after 40 (which looks a lot like life before 40).

You’re known for revealing your backside in almost all the theatrical productions you’ve been in. I admit I was disappointed not to see it this time.
Someone once wrote, “Is it some sort of contractual thing that he has to show his bum in everything he does?” But no, I mean, there wasn’t really any place for it. And also those trousers are so tight, you’ve got a pretty good idea of everything downstairs anyway.

What was Mac’s appeal for you, then?
It’s one of the great modern European theater roles—and also, you’ve got to make people want to **** you even though you’re a horrible rapist and murderer. So it’s got all those challenges.

Yet you’re playing another dark character from the Weimar era. How is it different?
Cabaret was more cheeky. The phrase I think of when I do Cabaret is, “You know you want to.” This is more like, “You want to, or I’ll ****ing beat your head in.”

You said that when you turned 40, you might slow down your partying a bit. You’re 41 now.
I hope I’m still going to clubs when I’m 65.

Where do you go?
I’ve been loving the lesbian nights at Starlight. Lesbians are so gorgeous nowadays. Maybe it’s just me, maybe I’ve just noticed them. And the Russian Baths. I was in there steaming my voice, because I was a bit hoarse, and these old men were singing in Yiddish, and they were like, “Join in, sing the harmonies!” So there I am humming along.

You also said that after 40, you’d stop doing so many movies you didn’t like.
Oh dear, did I say that? Gosh. Well, I’ve not really done anything I’ve not really liked for a while. I probably will have to because I’ll be bankrupt. So I’m on the lookout for things I actively don’t like.

Weren’t you supposed to be in X-Men 3?
They had an option on me, and they didn’t pick up my option. I was delighted, frankly. I didn’t enjoy [X-Men 2] at all. It was horrible.

And what’s been the worst thing about Threepenny?
The worst thing that happened is last night Nellie McKay stood in my doorway with a Hillary Clinton mask on singing “Moon River” on a ukulele, whilst me and a couple of people, including Jessica Lange and Mikhail Baryshnikov, looked on amazed. We wondered when she was going to stop, and she didn’t for quite some time.

The Threepenny Opera.
Studio 54; Opens April 20.

 

[Kira]

Weren’t you supposed to be in X-Men 3?
They had an option on me, and they didn’t pick up my option. I was delighted, frankly. I didn’t enjoy [X-Men 2] at all. It was horrible.

Sucks that Alan had a bad time during X2.

Well, I hope he at least liked his fellow cast mates.

 

[eXperiment]

Sucks that Alan had a bad time during X2.

Well, I hope he at least liked his fellow cast mates.

***runs to another room crying***
It does stink that he didn't like X2.

 

[LMason]

Alan has stated that he was sometimes called to set early to get in full makeup and then never used the entire day. On the days he would be on wires, they would change things at the last second that required him to be hanging from wires for a long time. It doesn't seem like actual shooting was a pleasant thing at all.

 

[Aiden]

I don't think he had a problem with any cast mates or anyone else really. Just Bryan Singer. Like LMason said. Thats what he would do for most of the day. I'd be pretty pi$$ed if they asked me to do that all day

 

[eXperiment]

Your not the only one.

 

[narrows101]

I was watching a 2006 movie on Lifetime tonight called "Engaged to Kill" and the son in the movie was played by Bryce Hodgson - Artie in X-Men. Boy did he get BIG!

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

okay...speaking of artie...when he sticks his slithering tongue at the little girl...there;s a tall girl in a white long sleeve blouse standing near him... and she has long dark hair...who is she? she's kinda hot...

 

[LMason]

Ben looking like his old self

Famke and Ian kiss

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Smooochie

 

[Karea07]

Ben looking like his old self

I found your caption funny.

 

[Aiden]

He looks like a hillbilly with that 'tache

I can't believe Ellen let him grow that

 

[LEX]

Ben looking like his old self

Famke and Ian kiss

Ben, shave those off!

And how cute, Famke kissing Ian on the cheek.

 

[Karea07]

He looks like a hillbilly with that 'tache

I can't believe Ellen let him grow that

it's probably for a movie

 

[LMason]

Actor HUGH JACKMAN was stunned during the shooting of X-MEN 2, when one of his co-stars insisted a coffee shop employee be flown in to make them just one drink per day.
Jackman refuses to name the demanding star, but admits it was the most preposterous Hollywood behaviour he has ever witnessed.
He says, "The strangest thing I ever saw was while filming X-Men 2 - I can't tell you the name, but one of the cast loves a particular coffee chain.
"This person liked an ice-blended drink, so a specialist was flown up and stayed on set for this person to have one cup a day.
"I used to talk to the guy because I felt sorry for him. He had to stand around all day and make one drink. I was like, 'You are f**king kidding me.'"

 

[LEX]

Actor HUGH JACKMAN was stunned during the shooting of X-MEN 2, when one of his co-stars insisted a coffee shop employee be flown in to make them just one drink per day.
Jackman refuses to name the demanding star, but admits it was the most preposterous Hollywood behaviour he has ever witnessed.
He says, "The strangest thing I ever saw was while filming X-Men 2 - I can't tell you the name, but one of the cast loves a particular coffee chain.
"This person liked an ice-blended drink, so a specialist was flown up and stayed on set for this person to have one cup a day.
"I used to talk to the guy because I felt sorry for him. He had to stand around all day and make one drink. I was like, 'You are f**king kidding me.'"

One of his co-stars? Mmmm...
Any guess?

 

[Fifty Euros]

Ahh I'd love to know who it is...

 

[Karea07]

One of his co-stars? Mmmm...
Any guess?

Halle Berry? She is the only other top billed star. Maybe Patrick or Ian?

 

[narrows101]

One of his co-stars? Mmmm...
Any guess?

I never trust anything on Contact Music because they usually take stuff out of context, and this article sounds SO unlike Hugh - he usually doesn't "tell tales out of school." Plus he and Halle (if it is her and this story is true) are good friends. When asked once on "The View" what her ideal man would be like, she right away said "someone like Hugh Jackman."

 

[LMason]

maybe it's Starbucks-loving, Ms.Foie Gras

 

[sebaa]

i think that ban foster and ellen page are daiting

 

[Electrix]

http://www.hot995.com/cc-common/podcast.html

Cool podcast with Anna, Shawn, Aaron and Dania.