It’s such a good way to get people to expunge. You know what’s good, though? On Burns Night, a man sent me a letter to Trump written in the style of Robert Burns (7), and I now read it out at my concerts. I’ve accidentally ended this interview on a bummer. The one good thing about this is that it has engaged people politically across the whole plane of society. What scares me is that there’s such a litany of stupidity and fuck-ups that it will become normalised. It’s very stressful it’s very embarrassing. I’ve got another show up my sleeve I want to do one called Alan Cumming: Illegal Immigrant, where I talk about some of the issues going on, but also celebrate some of the amazing music made by immigrants to this country.
In June, we’ve got a week in Australia, and then we’re winding it up. Sometimes you make decisions and compromises that ensure it’s still fun to go to work, so maybe that was one of them. But it really wasn’t … it didn’t feel … it was a very lovely … I think everyone enjoyed going to work there. That was a decision that was made as the show went on. What can I say? Archie and Julianna weren’t in episodes together for very long. There were lots of rumours of a discordant set on The Good Wife (5). I can’t really be doing two shows at once but it was never really on the cards. If my pilot gets picked up, I’ll be doing that. What I love about the film is that both characters learn and grow, and realise that maybe they were a little too didactic in their respective corners.Īre you ever going to turn up on The Good Fight (4)? I know people who went through all that, who are like: “Isn’t it amazing that these kids don’t have to worry like we did?” It’s a very nuanced argument. But at the same time, I can also understand the bewilderment and despair that people from an older generation went through. I can understand why younger people can feel slightly patronised by older people who lived through it.
I know so many older gay men who are like: “You don’t know what the Aids crisis was like,” but I also know a lot of young gay guys who are like: “Who cares?”Īre you on a particular side of that discussion? It’s pandemic, and yet I’ve never really seen it represented in a film. That sort of discussion between an older gay man and a younger gay man, and the differences between their generations, is happening everywhere. I’ve got a place in the Catskills for that. You can’t get on the back foot here, so it’s best to live it at volume 10 and then have somewhere else where you can go completely the other way. I grew up in the middle of a forest, and I crave getting away from everything. Would you ever remove yourself from the big city? I was just watching your Hebrides documentary (2).
If I hadn’t had my arm up that sheep’s vagina, she might have died and the baby might have died. What was it like to birth a lamb when you were a kid?