Alan Cumming portrait whets the appetite for new staging of Macbeth

By Claire Black

Published on Tuesday 3 April 2012

I don't think I’m being rude in saying that I suspect Alan Cumming is not an actor who takes much persuading when it comes to photo shoots.

If you don’t believe me, click on the “Look at Alan” button on his website and see for yourself. Buttocks, basques and bareness aplenty. The collection is a treasure trove of images, personas and playfulness that document Cumming’s riotous career. And now there’s a new portrait (with more to follow apparently) to add to this fine collection.

With kohl-heavy eyes and whitened skin, a trickle of blood running from his nose, Cumming stares intensely, head tipped forward, hair falling in tangles around his face in the image. Taken by celebrated Edinburgh-born photographer Albert Watson (the man who photographed Hitchcock holding a dead goose with a ribbon round its neck for the Christmas issue of Harper’s Bazaar in 1973) the picture is to whet our appetites for the National Theatre of Scotland’s radical reimagining of Macbeth, starring Cumming and directed by John Tiffany, which arrives at Tramway in June. Job done, I’d say. 

Source: Scotsman
Also reported by Herald Scotland 

Dalí in 3-D: Alan Cumming to Star in ‘The Surrealist’
“If you’re going to make a film in 3-D, Surrealism is what to make it about,” film-maker Philippe Mora told The Observer by phone. And so that is pretty much exactly what Mr. Mora is doing. He is working on a movie right now called The Surrealist, about painter Salvador Dalí and his tempestuous wife, Gala.  
Alan Cumming and Judy Davis are taking the lead roles.
 
Read more at Gallerist NY, who report that shooting will begin by the end of the year.