Actor-director Alan Cumming, who is reprising his role as Nightcrawler in the much-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday, has shared that he accidentally injured Pedro Pascal during the making of the film, and that too, in his first scene.
Opening up about the incident during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host asked Cumming what fans could expect from Nightcrawler in Doomsday, to which he replied, "All of (the X-Men cast) are in it, too. What was funny was that in my first scene with Pedro, he hurt his neck and had to go home. I broke Pedro." The actor mentioned that the minor issue did not take place during a fight scene, but was a production-related error.
"I wasn't fighting. No, no. I was just, sort of, being we were just together in a scene, and I wasn't fighting, no. He's got these big long arms and everything, so it's quite complicated. I do have a tail, but I didn't have my tail on at the time. Pedro didn't have his arms on either," he elaborated.
Robert Downey Jr, whose stint as the Iron Man came to an end in Endgame, is back to Marvel as Doctor Doom and will face off against Avengers, Wakandans, Fantastic Four, New Avengers, and the X-Men in Avengers: Doomsday.
Written by Michael Waldron and Stephen McFeely, the film features an ensemble cast consisting of characters from the above movies including Chris Hemsworth, Vanessa Kirby, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Simu Liu, Florence Pugh, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Winston Duke, Hannah John-Kamen, Tom Hiddleston, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, and Channing Tatum. It has also been confirmed that Chris Evans will return as Steve Rogers after last playing Captain America in Endgame.
The two-part Avengers film, with the first being Avengers: Doomsday, hits theatres on December 18, 2026, while its sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars, is slated for a release on December 17, 2027. Ahead of its release, Avengers: Endgame is scheduled to come back to the screens on September 25.
