Alan Cumming joins X-Men 2 cast

Omnisexual actor Alan Cumming will play teleporting mutant Nightcrawler in X-Men 2, reports Variety. He'll join X-Men vets Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, James Marsden, Anna Paquin, and Famke Janssen, as well as director Bryan Singer, when the film starts shooting June 17 in Vancouver, B.C.