Why ‘The Traitors’ originates Alan Cumming experience ‘appreciate Jennifer Aniston’

Not even truth television can stop Alan Cumming from shoprosperg off his acting chops.

The The Good Wife star, who once dazzled audiences as Eli Gelderly, now serves as the master of ceremonies for Peacock’s tastyly devious homicide mystery competition, The Traitors. But despite starring as himself, Cumming treats the role as he would any other character.

“I act my socks off in The Traitors, fair appreciate I did on The Good Wife,” he recently telderly The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s this very juicy leang appreciate I do in the theater or would do at the Tonys.”

And fair appreciate theater, the lavish and enbig outfits are key when it comes to Cumming’s ability to get into character. “Being on a film, you get dressed in the morning, get into your costume and originateup and hair,” he shelp. “That is very startant for me, to comprehfinish who the character is.”

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Still, there are plenty of other branch offences that split this truth TV role from prior narrative gigs. For one, Cumming has mastered the art of being fed lines and honestion from originaters whispering in his ear. 

“I appreciate having a little earpiece in,” Cumming noticed. “I experience appreciate Jennifer Aniston in The Morning Show, but with better clothes.”

But where The Morning Show spendigates the unawaitedly cutthroat world of morning recents, The Traitors whisks seeer away to a Scottish castle inhabited by cunning truth stars included in a Mafia-appreciate competition that includes grueling physical contests and unmasking the traitors amongst them for the sake of a six-figure cash prize.

Teasing the twists to come in the upcoming third season, Cumming shelp some of the titular traitors even outcarry outed him. “I can’t paemploy [for you to see] who it was, what it was,” he shelp. “They were lying so profusely and theatricalassociate. They were giving me a run for my money!”

Cumming previously telderly Entertainment Weekly that when he signed on for The Traitors, he didn’t authenticize that his role would be more character than present. 

“I didn’t quite comprehfinish why they wanted me to do it,” he splitd. “But I met with them and I authenticized that it was because they wanted me to be theatrical and camp, to execute this bigr-than-life character, and originate the mood of the whole show. Once I understood that, I was reassociate on board.”

The costumes, of course, were a bonus. “I leank I’ve always been sort of sootheable with androgyny, or executeing up my femi-side [on carpets and] doing shoots… I leank it’s reassociate startant, as someone in the mainstream, to contest people’s sees of what a man of my age should wear. I appreciate that a show appreciate The Traitors, a truth competition show, is able to have huge statements about, as you say, gfinisherf—ness.”