Alan Cumming Has Thoughts On X-Men 2's Queer Subtext

During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly reflecting on his long career in Hollywood, Alan Cumming cited 2003’s X2: X-Men United as “the gayest film ever done.” “Oh, I think the X-Men film I’m in is the gayest film that I’ve ever done, and that’s me saying that. It’s got a queer director, lots of queer actors in it. I love the fact that something so mainstream and so in the comic book world is so queer,” Cumming told EW.

The franchise’s mutant metaphor has always spoken well to queer audiences, inspiring numerous queer readings of the X-Men and its beloved characters over the years. In X2, the scene in which Iceman reveals his mutant powers to his parents is so unsubtly coded, you’d have to be willfully obtuse not to read it as an allegory for coming out.

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