Second Cumming?
Alan Cumming — whose new documentary is about a 30-year-old man who poses as a teen to return to high school — said there’s parts of his life he’d like to take mulligan on.
“There are so many occasions I would like to go back to,” he told us while promoting the flick, “There are people I’ve had relationships with who I probably would say no to now.
“But knowing what I know, [I’d choose to] go back to being 20. When I started to work as an actor I wish I kind of realized that it was OK to be an individual and being unusual and being different is a positive thing.”
The film, “My Old School,” is about Scot Brandon Lee, supposedly a 15-year-old who enrolled in Bearsden Academy in Glasgow in 1993. But two years later it was discovered that Lee was actually a 30-year-old man who hadn’t got good enough grades to go on to medical school the first time he went to the high school, so he re-enrolled in hopes of making it as a medic the second time around.
Cumming has an unusual role in the project. Lee agreed to be recorded telling his story in his own words, but didn’t want to appear on camera. So Cumming lip-syncs along to Lee’s description of events.
Magnolia Pictures will release “My Old School” in theaters on July 22nd.