Scottish actor Alan Cumming says internet hosting the US model of The Traitors makes him really feel like a “James Bond villain.”
Cumming, who beforehand appeared in 1995 Bond movie GoldenEye, informed the BBC that the present’s producers requested him to “camp it up” and painting a flamboyant character inside the present. Cumming mentioned his sturdy Scottish accent is “me taking part in Moira Rose from Schitt’s Creek taking part in Alan Cumming.”
He mentioned he appears like a James Bond villain when he watches on hidden screens the interplay between ‘the Faithfuls’ and ‘the Traitors’ on the hit actuality TV present, and that he even volunteered to deliver his personal canine to set so he could possibly be filmed stroking her menacingly, channelling 007’s well-known adversary Ernst Blofeld together with his cat. Cumming’s canine Lala will seem within the second season of the hit present.
Cummings, who has loved a protracted movie profession in dozens of movies together with Spy Children and X-Males 2 in addition to his starring function within the TV drama The Good Spouse, has lengthy been based mostly in New York.
Cummings informed the BBC the US present differs from the UK model – each filmed at Ardross Fortress in Easter Ross in Scotland – as a result of the US model contains contestants who’re all celebrities, or actuality TV stars, not like the British model which recruits members of the general public to participate. The host mentioned of the US variation, “It heightens the drama, they perceive methods to do drama.”
The UK model of the present has develop into one of many BBC’s largest hits of the previous two years. The US model airs on Peacock.
