Alan Cumming is back for “Avengers: Doomsday,” revising his role as the blue-skinned, sword-wielding, teleporting Nightcrawler. While Cumming famously didn’t love his time on “X2” (the character did not return for “X-Men: The Last Stand,” the actor said his second turn in the pointy ears was a healing experience.

Alan Cumming was happy to get a do-over playing Nightcrawler in “Avengers: Doomsday”. In a recent interview with People, “The Traitors” host said it was “really healing” to return to the role of the teleporting mutant after having a “terrible” time during his first pass at the character in 2003’s “X2.

Alan Cumming called his experience reprising his role as Nightcrawler in Avengers: Doomsday 'really healing' after the 'miserable' filming of X2.