Alan Cumming is opening up about how playing Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday was actually "really healing" after his "terrible experience" in 2003's X2: X-Men United.

As previously reported on Queerty, Alan Cumming is reprising his role as the mutant Nightcrawler on the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday. Cumming first played the role in the X-Men sequel, X2: X-Men United, in 2003.

Alan Cumming is happy he got the chance to reprise his role as Kurt Wagner, a.k.a Nightcrawler, in Avengers: Doomsday after his “terrible” experience shooting X2: X-Men United . The 60-year-old actor revealed in a recent PEOPLE interview that he “just finished” filming his Doomsday scenes earlier this month.