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In Jeremy O. Harris's off-Broadway h, he happily stepped to a new archetype.</div><div class="ContentHearByle-kmPyCa emiglw"><div class="ContentHearByleContent-dpPmNn DRFq"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl ContentHearByl-cZqgyJ bHLeKI"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gtxxjM byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd dlWgVJ gnILss byle__preamble">By </span><a class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ByleLk-gEnFiw iUEiRd fhQbnq dzFUnH eErqIx byle__name-lk button" href="/ntributor/marian-bull">Marian Bull</a></span></span></p><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gtxxjM byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd dlWgVJ gnILss byle__preamble">Photography by </span><a class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ByleLk-gEnFiw iUEiRd fhQbnq dzFUnH eErqIx byle__name-lk button" href="/ntributor/matteo-mobil">Matteo Mobil</a></span></span></p></div><time data-ttid="ContentHearPublishDate" dateTime="2019-04-01T11:58:53-04:00" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearPublishDate-eIBicG iUEiRd ivrQAn cZpOSL">April 1, 2019</time></div></div><div class="SocialInsWrapper-hKMEXV ffgPVr social-ins social-ins--standard ContentHearAccredatnSocialIns-jorO fPzfaa ntent-hear__social-share"><ul data-ttid="socialInslist" class="SocialInsList-cHVTIA ivmblD social-ins__list"></ul></div></div></div><div class="ContentHearLeadAsset-hGbumP fEknXh lead-asset ContentHearLeadAssetWrapper-hfXHEc Grck lead-asset--width-fullbleed" data-ttid="ContentHearLeadAsset"><figure class="ContentHearLeadAssetContent-kOfYSG dRGWbI"><div class="ContentHearLeadAssetContentMedia-bLEIpi jjhWdS lead-asset__ntent__photo"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz ccdiSo"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w, 1920w, 2240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="This image may nta Face Human Person Beard Fger and Wristwatch" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span></div></figure></div></div><asi class="PersistentAsiWrapper-VGrR oEIBz persistent-asi persistent-asi--align-left" style="posn:absolute;top:to;height:to" data-ttid="PersistentAsiWrapper"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jNgrSF sticky-box ContentHearPersistentAsi-fsnAmQ dFzKzm"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="SocialInsWrapper-hKMEXV ffgPVr social-ins social-ins--has-background ContentHearSocialIns-jzJiyg ctaZl social-ins--share"><ul data-ttid="socialInslist" class="SocialInsList-cHVTIA ivmblD social-ins__list"></ul></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></asi></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN kJkLmH article-body__ntent"><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP eRxRjL"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eSsnKa"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>One extremely vapid terpretatn of <a href=">Jeremy O. Harris’s jt-closed play, <em>Daddy,</em></a> is that Harris heard the Gee Michael song “Father Figure” (“I will be your father figure / Put your ty hand me”) and cid to turn to a three-act melodrama. The play and the song share May-December relatnships, daddy issu, nudy, brazen horns, and a gospel choir. And the show’s most joyful moment me when Alan Cummg—who played the tular daddy—actually performed the song, wh the choir on backup. After the first verse, Cummg grabbed a mic hidn above him the Hopperque set, pulled close to his face, and smirked wh a twkle his ey to alert the dience that the fun part was g.</p><p>As Andre, a greedy and predatory athete ed to gettg his way, Cummg ftly wove between icy ntrol and eager, raveno fatuatn. The play’s tensn would briefly break when, soakg wet om a dip the stage’s <a href=">built- pool</a>, he lnched to the song’s chos, wh gto and a flick of mp. Like Michael, his voice went guttural and hammy as he crooned “I’ll be your dad-dayyyyuh,” greasy and thrillg all at once. In a play that dol out disfort like a barber do lollipops, his performance was a brief and wele sh of joy.</p><p>Audienc are ed to seeg Cummg sg and dance: he’s played the horny-v-r Emcee <em>Cabaret</em> three different tim three different s of his life. And most people born before 1990 remember his balletic three-way of a dance wh Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvo <em>Romy and Michele’s High School Rnn</em>. But <em>Daddy</em>, beard and mean, the actor so often scribed as <a href=">charmg</a> or <a href=">mischievo</a> or <a href=">boyish</a> or “<a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">licly cheeky</a>” has gone gff and stately. He is, other words, a daddy. And he’s lovg .</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>“I’m embracg my dadds,” Cummg says as he por over two different typ of fake meat meant to evoke chicken at Manhattan’s Peacefood Café. “I’m ually [referred to as] ‘Oh, the ltle pixie, elf-y Alan.’ And all of a sudn, I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m the fuckg <em>daddy</em>!’” Even wh his younger stmat the show—many, like <em>You</em> breakout Hari Nef and <em>13 Reasons Why</em>’s Tommy Dorfman, are their 20s—he’s found himself playg a more parental role off-stage, offerg advice on the ebbs and flows of relatnships. “That's life,” he says he tells them. “It nstantly happens. It's actually really lovely. I'm enjoyg my age.”</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="en51ku"></div></div><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Human Person Alan Cummg Vt Accsori Tie Accsory Shirt and Face" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="ytzfu"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Cummg was attracted to <em>Daddy</em> bee alt wh issu he hadn’t seen acknowledged so openly a script before. In the show, a young black artist named Frankl (played by Ronald Peet) shacks up wh Andre—Cummg’s mega-rich, salt-and-pepper'd art llector—after meetg at a club and havg an MDMA-fueled bate about the value of llectg art. As Frankl’s show approach and then pass, he be creasgly pennt on Andre, and Andre be even more menacg. When Frankl’s mother shows up, skeptil of the new man his life, the prer strgs holdg the two men's relatnship together ay and dramatilly snap. “[They’re] both fascatg and taboo subjects: relatnships wh younger people, race, and how gayns is terpreted wh the black muny and wh the whe muny,” Cummg says. “It's very provotive. I thk the theater should be, you know.”</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>That much is clear the the rapturo foc Cummg giv to all his rol and scen, regardls of where they s on the prtige sle: In <em>Daddy,</em> he was jt as believable and tense sgg Gee Michael as he is takg his love tert over his lap and spankg him wh a shoe. “I like heightened style,” he says of his affy for Harris’ text, which also clus a directn for his character to hump an enormo cloth doll. ”I don't really live naturalism. Or realism. So I que like .” He exhibs a firm ntrol over his character, even when he’s off the ep end.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>After a brief stt wrg horosp—which he ma up—for a Sttish publishg hoe as a teenager, Cummg studied theater Edburgh and moved to London; at 28, while starrg <em>Hamlet</em>, he was reced by Sam Mens to play the Emcee <em>Cabaret</em>, a role that Cummg reimaged via what you might ll “horny sicko mo.” It was also the role that brought him to the U.S. (If he hadn’t taken that one part, Cummg says, “I would be wearg rdigans and havg barbecu” London right now.)</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn ZFLB llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="This image may nta Clothg Apparel Alan Cummg Human Person and Shirt" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><p>Sce then, his reer trajectory has been driven by a sort of creative pg-pongg: Cummg is an actor who lov pal-t Theater as much as he lov havg fun, and isn’t worried about any ntradictns that might imply. In the late ‘90s he weaved easily om ocsnally mpy rol big-screen movi like <em>GolnEye</em> and <em>Romy and Michele's High School Rnn</em> and <em>Spice World</em> and <em>Josie and the Psy Cats</em> to more classilly earnt rol (<em>Emma</em>) to a leerg, leather-clad ler <em>T</em>, Julie Taymor’s experimental reimagatn of Shakpeare’s most physilly vlent play. Sce then, he’s ma granr swgs, <em>Macbeth</em>, and a 2016 reprisal of his role as Emcee alongsi Michelle Williams (and, briefly, Emma Stone) on Broadway. And eply absurdist swgs wh <a href="><em>Spy Kids</em></a> and <em>The Smurfs.</em> He’s also more recently gone on two baret-style solo tours, one which he sgs sappy songs, and one foced on his experience as an immigrant Ameri.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="o60tc"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Balance, Cummg says, is the one through-le he n see his reer. “It’s really jt about what I need at the time. There's tim your life when you want to have an credible challenge, and there's tim your life when you want to ast a b, jt have a nice time. I'm not pletely passnate about, you know, <em>The Smurfs</em>, but I'll make sure my Smurf is as Smurfy as possible. And then you feel too fat and fortable,” he says, and the cycle begs aga. Mostly, he don’t like stg still: “I thk boredom is ath.” In 2020, he’ll mount his first dance performance, jt bee ’s somethg he wants to try, and bee he saw Juliette Boche do somethg siar a few years ago, and was rapt. In 2017, he opened a bar the East Village, lled Club Cummg, which he lls his “greatt artistic achievement.”</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj fAzNVP"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eltaVW"><p>"My ethos is, everyone is wele, kdns is all, all ag, all genrs, all sexuali."</p></div></asi><p>At the end of January, Cummg threw himself a Stud 54-themed birthday party at his own bar, Club Cummg, at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night; any earlier, and he would have been petg wh the venue’s screeng of <em>Rent Live</em>. He showed up a shaggy black mullet-y wig that nstantly threatened to sli off, as well as a leopard prt su, matchg tie, and no shirt, though he did have a large pendant the shape of a weed leaf slung around his neck. This getup was jt somethg he had layg around, he told me, the drs-up tnk he keeps the lndry room of his downtown apartment. Every half hour or so, he’d pop behd the bar, an absolutely geeked se on his face, make a few drks for people, and joke around wh the actual, profsnal bartenr.</p><p>Once the party was full swg, a handsome clean-cut man wh excellent posture hopped onto the bar’s small stage, and explaed to the crowd—some of Cummg’s iends, some holdovers om <em>Rent</em>, some over-50 lols, a few queers drsed to theme—that “Alan requted a song wh full piano acpaniment” for his birthday, and proceed to sg “Make Someone Happy” wh the help of a guy who would later acpany a few rounds of ABBA and dis songs on the stage’s piano. You uld have lled the whole thg rny if weren’t so betiful.</p><p>“Most of the time I'm not there, but when I go, I love stg behd the bar and I love that 's this thg that's gog along that has a life of s own,” says Cummg, who later that night stood at the foot of the stage, alone, dancg to “Vio Killed The Rad Star” and s piano acpaniment, the way we all do when we’re jt exced to watch someone make mic and wiggle our hips around and do ltle “pew pew” motns wh our hands (which he also did).</p><p>The bar started as a party Cummg’s drsg room durg his most recent n <em>Cabaret</em>, 2015. He’d double booked himself, and was filmg CBS’s <em>The Good Wife</em> durg the day and performg at night, which meant he wouldn’t have much time to go out, and need to brg the party to him; quickly beme a phenomenon and was wrten up the <em>New York Tim</em>, where, thank God, we got to read about him askg Michelle Williams’ pajama-clad dghter, “Are those your jim jams?” Club Cummg got so popular that people would ask to buy tickets for at the box office.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="j3gh6y"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>“My ethos is, everyone is wele, kdns is all, all ag, all genrs, all sexuali. A lady a uple weeks ago celebrated her 104th birthday at Club Cummg,” he says. Wh another wkg se, barely unable to nta the fun he’s havg jt rememberg : “She says the secret to longevy is that she's pickled <em>marti</em>.”</p><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn dxKJjl llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Alan Cummg Human Person Accsori Tie Accsory Sleeve and Vt" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div><p>Optimism and joy take work, of urse, and Cummg’s reer hasn’t been all rtwheels and backstage parti. His actg has scratched away at ugls jt as often as has provid <a href=">ro choreography to Cdy Lper’s “Time After Time</a>.” Cummg’s 2014 book <em>My Father’s Son</em> chronicled his relatnship wh an abive father, and his show <em>Legal Immigrant</em> has had him tourg the U.S. talkg about his own experience as an outsir this untry, though he adms he’s had much easier than many. That tour took him to Wt Palm Beach, where people mostly know him om <em>The Good Wife:</em> “They go, 'Oh 's that guy off of TV' and then they get me sayg thgs about Tmp,” Cummg says. “And Wt Palm Beach, wh all the billnair, a man shouted at me, ‘Go back to where you me om.’ And another one said, “Get on wh the show!” And I love that, bee then other people shout. It be what the theater is for: a dialogue.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>A dual thrill to the fun and the ugly are, part, what brought Cummg to <em>Daddy:</em> a melodramatic, ocsnally farcil exvatn of the tersectn of race and sexualy and money, and all the nasts found there. Cummg has operated siar spac before, particularly 2017's <em>After Louie,</em> a film which he played a queer artist and activist who had survived the AIDS crisis that took so many of his iends, and also fell love wh a much younger man who challenged his own ncepts of timacy. And there was 2012's <em>Any Day Now,</em> which Cummg plays a drag performer the ‘70s who falls love wh a closeted lawyer as they take ctody of an abandoned, velopmentally disabled teenager.</p><p>Cummg knows the queer narrativ are important but often limed by their current die-ns. He’s currently the star of <em>Instct</em>, a CBS show that’s the first hour-long work drama wh an openly gay ma character, though you wouldn’t necsarily ll “gay TV.” It’s far more mastream than the aforementned works, but, “I feel like I’m at a time where I n reach more people wh an episo of <em>Instct</em> than wh <em>After Louie</em> or <em>Any Day Now</em>,” he explas. “Only 200 people a night are gog to see [<em>Daddy</em>]. So I'm thkg I want to try and do mass nsumptn a b more. You know, you have shows about middle-aged women gog back to the datg game. I thk 'd be really good to have a middle-aged man gog back to the gay datg game.”</p><p>It mak perfect sense, of urse: Cummg is perhaps the bt the game at havg way too much fun wh a role whout ever treatg like somethg silly. And now that he’s spent time <em>Daddy</em> terrory, he’s ready to tt the waters. I ask him if he’s aware of the phenomenon where horny or adorg fans will ment a terse “daddy” on a celebry’s picture. He stops, thks, and slightly cks his head regnn: “Oh y. I know that. I see that on my Instagram feed. 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ALAN CUMMG ON NEW SERI "INSTCT" AND WHY 'S A "BIG STEP" FOR GAY CHARACTERS

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” He scrib the scent as “earthy” has jt taken over the pop star Will Young’s role as the -host, alongsi Chris Sweeney, of the Homo Sapiens podst – which queer people talk about queer life – which means he n cross off podster, albe reluctantly. I’ve never had shame about sex general or homosexualy. ”Alan Cummg wh Chris Sweeney, his -host on the Homo Sapiens podst Photograph: Yemisi BrookCummg lghs dismissively when asked if his globe-trottg reer has gone the way he thought would when he was startg out as a young actor on the Sttish theatre scene the late 80s.

In 2018, he land the starrg role Instct, the first work drama on US televisn to feature a gay leadg somethg of a Hollywood veteran (his vast filmography rang om Golneye and Emma to Spice World and Spy Kids), he has exprsed solidary wh the victims of Harvey Weste.

WHAT ALAN CUMMG'S ROLE AS A GAY LEAD MEANS FOR MASTREAM TV

”Cummg has wnsed phenomenal social change sce he started his reer, when homophobia was stutnal and potent.

I don’t thk people Basgstoke or Idaho are not gog to go and see a movie bee someone is gay. ”The new seri of Homo Sapiens starts 30 April and is available on all podstg platforms. 2007 and then aga New York a man who was once married to a woman myself but now intifi as gay, Cummg's experience has always stuck wh me.

There are gay people who don't have sex.

ALAN CUMMG: THE TTH ABOUT MY FATHERGENE THERAPYIN 2010, THE ‘GOOD WIFE’ STAR RECEIVED SHOCKG NEWS ABOUT HIS PATERNY. HE TALKS NDIDLY ABOUT THE SAGA, NON-MONOGAMY, ASSISTED SUICI, AND WHY HE’S ‘BORED’ OF THE GAY ACTOR BATE.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 6:42PM EDT / PUBLISHED OCT. 14, 2014 5:50AM EDT KEV GARCIAJOURNALISTS GENERALLY SHOULDN’T BE PART OF THE STORI THEY VER. BUT TODAY, STG WH ALAN CUMMG THE UNN SQUARE VEGAN RTRANT PEACEFOOD CAFé, ’S UNAVOIDABLE. I AM PART OF THE STORY, A KEY ONE, TURNS OUT; WHEN I REACHED PAGE 31 OF THE GOOD WIFE STAR’S MEMOIR, NOT MY FATHER’S SON, THE LOR DRAED OM MY FACE WHEN I DISVERED WHY. “ISN’T FUNNY? YOU’RE ACTUALLY TEGRAL TO THIS BOOK,” CUMMG SAYS, TAKG OFF HIS LOVELY, FTED CHECKERED AT AND SRF AND LIBERATG A CURTA OF DARK FLOPPY HAIR OM UNR A JNTY HAT. “IF HADN’T BEEN FOR MEETG AND DOG THAT TERVIEW MY DAD WOULD NEVER HAVE TOLD ME—AT THAT TIME ANYWAY…AND MAYBE NOT EVER.”IN 2010, I TERVIEWED CUMMG FOR THE LONDON TIM, AN TERVIEW THAT WAS, S FAL PRTED VERSN, BOILED DOWN TO A SERI OF QUOT, CLUDG THAT CUMMG’S LIFE WAS BETTER WHOUT HIS FATHER ALEX ; THAT HIS FATHER HAD NCER; AND THAT THE NEXT TIME HE SAW HIM HE’D BE ILL OR DYG, “AND I MAY NOT SEE HIM.”TABLOID JOURNALISTS SAW THE QUOT AND NTACTED BOTH CUMMG’S MOTHER, MARY DARLG, AND HIS FATHER STLAND. ALEX THEN TOLD CUMMG’S BROTHER, TOM, THAT ALAN WAS NOT HIS SON, BUT RATHER THE PRODUCT OF AN AFFAIR CUMMG’S MOTHER HAD. THAT WAS SHOCKG ENOUGH; THEN CUMMG TOOK A DNA TT, AND DISVERED HIS FATHER WAS HIS FATHER AFTER ALL, AND THAT HIS MOTHER HAD NEVER HAD AN AFFAIR. FOR 45 YEARS, HIS FATHER HAD CREATED A FICTN HIS HEAD—ALL THIS ON TOP OF BEG A “MONSTER,” AS CUMMG LLS HIM, ABIVE AND TERRIFYG. “MY DAD EAKED OUT WHEN THE TABLOID REPORTER TURNED UP,” CUMMG SAYS, HIS LILTG STTISH BROGUE. “HE LLED MY BROTHER. HE THOUGHT THEY HAD FOUND OUT ABOUT ME NOT BEG HIS SON, AND THAT I WOULD FD OUT ABOUT VIA THE PRS.”CUMMG’S EY FLICK UP. “PLEASE DON’T DO THAT,” HE SAYS TO A LADY STG AT A NEIGHBORG TABLE. SHE IS SURREPTLY TAKG A PICTURE OF HIM EATG.“WOULD YOU LETE THAT?” CUMMG SAYS, NOT A REQUT, MORE AN STCTN—AND THE BT DON’T-FUCK-WH-ME TONE OF HIS GOOD WIFE CHARACTER, ELI GOLD.“IT HAPPENS EVERYWHERE, WELE TO MY WORLD,” HE SAYS, ROLLG HIS EY. HE LOOKS GREAT: LEAN, A YOUNGER THAN HIS 49 YEARS. VEGANISM HELPS, HE SAYS, AS WELL AS HIGH-KICKG HIS WAY THROUGH EIGHT PERFORMANC A WEEK OF CABARET ON BROADWAY, WHICH HE PLAYS THE EMCEE “ALONGSI A ST OF GIRLS HALF MY AGE” (MICHELLE WILLIAMS PLAYS SALLY BOWL). HE LIV THE EAST VILLAGE WH HIS MUCH-LOVED HBAND GRANT SHAFFER. HE IS QUICK, TELLIGENT, FUNNY, AND VERY DIRECT. TOM BROKE THE NEWS TO CUMMG THAT HE WASN’T HIS FATHER’S SON—THE RRECT NEWS, AS TURNED OUT—ON A LONDON ROOFTOP, JT AS CUMMG WAS ABOUT TO FILM AN EPISO OF THE BBC CELEBRY GENEALOGY SHOW, WHO DO YOU THK YOU ARE?, WHICH WOULD FOC ON HIS MOTHER’S FATHER, TOMMY DARLG. TOMMY’S WARTIME STORY, BOTH HEROIC AND TRAGIC, FORMS ANOTHER STORYLE OF THE MEMOIR. AS CUMMG WAS FILMG A SHOW ABOUT HIS FAY’S PAST, HE WAS LIVG A VERY H, AWFUL PRENT OFF MERA.“IT’S BEE OF YOUR ARTICLE THAT THGS HAPPENED THE WAY THEY DID. IT PRECIPATED THGS,” CUMMG SAYS. “AS I WAS WRG ABOUT I THOUGHT ABOUT NTACTG YOU.” THE ACTOR THOUGHT I HAD ASKED TO TERVIEW HIM BEE I HAD READ THE BOOK AND SEEN MYSELF ON THE PAGE. BUT I HADN’T. I READ THE BOOK AFTER I HAD ARRANGED THE TERVIEW. “I'M GLAD WE'RE DOG THIS,” CUMMG SAYS. “I WANTED TO SAY THERE ARE NO HARD FEELGS. I'M GLAD I HAVE THE CHANCE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT .”*****CUMMG AND TOM GREW UP RAL STLAND, ON THE TATE ANG WHERE HIS FATHER WAS HEAD FORTER. THE CHILDHOOD CUMMG SKETCH THIS PELLGLY WRTEN MEMOIR WAS ONE EIGHTED WH FEAR, THE TWO BOYS NEVER SURE HOW OR WHEN THEIR FATHER’S RAGE WOULD FLARE. TYPILLY, CUMMG SAYS, THE BOYS WOULD BE SET AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK, OR ONE WHOSE PLETN WOULD NEVER SATISFY THEIR FATHER. THEN HE WOULD LOSE HIS TEMPER AND STRIKE OUT. ON ONE OCSN, ASKED TO SORT GOOD AND BAD SAPLGS, HIS FATHER SPECTED CUMMG’S WORK AND WHOUT WARNG, “HE BACKHAND ME ACROSS THE FACE. I FLEW THROUGH THE AIR AND LAND A HEAP AGAST THE STONE WALL OF THE SHED.” HIS FATHER SMASHED HIM THE FACE, THEN THREW HIM TO A PILE OF SAPLGS WHOSE SPIKY ENDS JUTTED TO HIS EY, THEN KICKED HIM THE BACK FOR GOOD MEASURE.“THE THG THAT GOT TO ME THE MOST WAS BEG TOLD TO DO SOMETHG WHICH WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR WHATEVER REASON. I WAS LIKE, ‘I DON’T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS,’ THEN HE WOULD MAKE ME. STARTG A TASK KNOWG YOU’RE GOG TO FAIL AT , AND KNOWG YOU’RE GOG FAIL AT MEANG YOU’RE GOG TO GET H, IS SO MISERABLE AND SO CEL. EVEN WHEN I SAID, ‘I N’T DO THIS,’ I HAD TO GO THROUGH THIS DANCE AND EVABLY BE WHACKED.” ALEX WOULD H CUMMG ACROSS THE HEAD, OR KICK HIS BUTTOCKS OR THE BACKS OF HIS LEGS. “YOU KNEW WAS G. YOU ULD SEE THE BUILD-UP. YOU CLOSED DOWN AND WAED FOR .”THE MENACE AND ABE WAS NSTANT; READS AS A HOEHOLD UNR SIEGE. WHEN FATHER AND SON DID SOMETHG NICE—SUCH AS GOG SWIMMG— WAS UALLY AN OPPORTUNY FOR HIS FATHER TO SEE ANOTHER WOMAN ON THE SI, WHICH CUMMG WOULD WNS. CUMMG'S FATHER CHEATED ON CUMMG’S MOTHER NSTANTLY, A “PANMIC OF FILY,” AS CUMMG LLS . AT A UNTRY SHOW HIS FATHER LIBERATELY LOST HIM TO PURSUE ANOTHER ILLIC AFFAIR. AS TIME WENT ON, ALEX AND MARY LIVED SEPARATE LIV. SHE GOT A JOB—“SHE WAS FDG HERSELF AGA”—BUT, JT AS SHE VOLIZ THE IA OF LEAVG THE TYRANNIL ALEX TO ALAN AND TOM, THE R SKIDS ON SOME ICE EN ROUTE TO A SCREENG OF JAWS. SHE DIDN’T LEAVE ALEX—NOT THEN ANYWAY. “MUM WAS LIVG FEAR AS WELL WE WERE TRAPPED,” CUMMG TELLS ME. WHEN THE ACTOR HAD A NERVO BREAKDOWN HIS 20S, HE WONRED, “WHY DIDN’T SHE STOP ?” BUT, HE SAYS TODAY, “SHE WAS TERRIFIED, SHE WAS FANCIALLY TRAPPED BY HIM. IT WAS A FDAL SOCIETY. IT WAS LIKE LIVG THE 1940S, A WOMAN LEAVG A MAN WAS UNHEARD OF. SHE DID THE BT SHE ULD DO.”MARY FALLY LEFT ALEX WHEN CUMMG WAS 19 AND GLASGOW HIS FAL YEAR AT DRAMA SCHOOL. IN HIS LATE 20S, CUMMG NONTED HIS FATHER ABOUT HIS ABE; RPONSE, HIS FATHER SISTED, “I AM NOT A PSYCHOPATH.” CUMMG NEVER HEARD OM HIS FATHER AGA, UNTIL THE “I’M NOT YOUR FATHER BOMBSHELL” NEARLY TWENTY YEARS LATER.WHEN CUMMG IALLY HEARD HE WAS NOT HIS FATHER’S SON, HE TELLS ME, “I WAS UTTERLY, UTTERLY SHOCKED, PLETELY SHOCKED—HOW ALL HAPPENED, THE SPEED OF . I WAS VASTATED. I THOUGHT I’D HAVE A HEART ATTACK. I REMEMBER HOLDG MY CHT. I THOUGHT MY HEART WOULD LEAP OUT OF MY CHT, WAS SO OVERWHELMG. THEN I WAS FUR WH HIM. IT WAS SUCH A MAELSTROM. MOSTLY, QUICKLY, I WAS VERY HAPPY TO NOT BE HIS SON.”IT ALSO MEANT, SADLY, HE WASN’T HIS BROTHER’S BROTHER. “IT WAS LIKE I WAS WALKG OUT OF THE FORT TO THE SUNSHE, AND TOM WAS STILL THE FORT AND I WANTED TO PULL HIM OUT. IT WAS LIKE I’D GOTTEN AWAY. TALK ABOUT A MDFUCK.”“YOU’RE LUCKY,” TOM TOLD ALAN WHEN THEY THOUGHT ALEX HAD TOLD THEM THE TTH. “OF URSE, I HAD ALL THIS POTENTIALLY NEW FAY AS WELL,” SAYS CUMMG. HE KNEW THE MAN HIS FATHER NAMED AS HIS FATHER. “I DIDN’T NAME HIM THE BOOK. I FELT WOULD BRG UNDUE ATTENTN ON HIM. HE KNEW NOTHG ABOUT THIS, AND, OF URSE, WAS ALL MY FATHER’S IMAGATN.”HIS FATHER’S STORY WAS SO ELABORATE AND TAILED—HE RELLED SEEG HIS WIFE AT THE PARTY WHERE SHE SUPPOSEDLY WENT OFF WH THE OTHER MAN—THAT MA SENSE TO CUMMG. “BUT I ULDN’T TST HIM. I WANTED TO DO A DNA TT. THAT’S WHY I DIDN’T WANT TO SPEAK TO MY MUM BEFORE I KNEW.”BUT HE WAS SO CLOSE TO HIS MOTHER, WHY DIDN’T HE JT ASK HER DIRECTLY IF SHE’D HAD THE AFFAIR? SHE HADN’T, AND ULD HAVE REFUTED HIS FATHER’S BAROQUE MISAPPREHENSN IMMEDIATELY.“I KNOW, DO SEEM WEIRD DON’T ?” CUMMG SAYS. “I JT DIDN’T WANT TO UPSET HER ANY MORE, OR BRG HER UNDUE STRS. I WANTED TO GO TO HER AND SAY, ‘IT’S OK.’ I WOULD HAVE BEEN GLAD IF WAS TE. IF WASN’T TE AND MY FATHER WAS FUCKG WH MY HEAD I DIDN’T WANT TO BRG HER TO . YOU HAVE TO UNRSTAND, MY FATHER SUDNLY G BACK TO MY LIFE WAS SO SHOCKG.”*****CUMMG “FELT BLOWN AWAY” BY THE REVELATN THAT HIS FATHER WASN’T HIS FATHER. “I WANTED TO BATTEN DOWN THE HATCH FOR A MUTE AND THK. HE MA MY LIFE CHAOS. HE WAS SUCH A NEGATIVE AND DIVISIVE PERSON MY LIFE I WAS TRYG TO FIGURE OUT THE MIMUM AMOUNT OF PA THAT ULD BE ED HERE.”THE RULTS OF THE DNA TT ME THROUGH ON JUNE 4, 2010. HIS ASSISTANT WROTE TO CUMMG: “Y, YOUR DNA AND TOM’S DNA ABSOLUTELY MATCH. HE IS YOUR FATHER. I’M SO SORRY.” CUMMG SAID TO HIS BROTHER: “YOU KNOW, I WAS SO HAPPY NOT TO BE HIS SON. BUT AT LEAST NOW I KNOW I’M YOUR FULL BROTHER.”THEN HE LLED HIS FATHER, WHO SAID ON HEARG THE NEWS THAT HE WAS CUMMG’S FATHER (HAVG TOLD HIM HE WAS NOT), “WELL, I’M VERY GLAD TO HEAR THAT.” CUMMG TOLD HIM: “IT NEVER HAPPENED, DAD. YOU IMAGED ALL. MUM NEVER HAD AN AFFAIR. NONE OF EVER HAPPENED.”CUMMG TELLS ME HE WAS “NSCENT WH RAGE, LIKE I’VE NEVER FELT SUCH RAGE” AFTER HE DISVERED HE WAS HIS FATHER’S SON. “FURY. BEE I DID BELIEVE , AND HE’D FUCKED WH MY HEAD YET AGA. HE’D MA UP THE ENTIRE STORY. I FELT MUCH MORE EMPOWERED AND NTROL TO BE ABLE TO SAY, ‘LISTEN, I’VE HAD 45 YEARS-WORTH OF THIS MAN MSG WH ME, MSG WH MY HEAD.’ THE VERY LAST THG HE DO IS TO SAY TO ME: ‘YOU’RE EE OM ME, I’M NOT YOUR FATHER,’ BUT HE WAS. I WAS SO ANGRY.”AFTER RECEIVG THE RULTS OF THE DNA TT, CUMMG FALLY SPOKE TO HIS MOTHER, WHO REMEMBERED THE NIGHT HIS FATHER HAD THOUGHT HE HAD SEEN HER GO OFF WH THE OTHER MAN. IN FACT, THE MAN HAD JT WANTED TO TALK TO SOMEONE ABOUT HIS DRKG PROBLEM—THAT’S ALL THAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT.“BEG ABLE TO TELL YOUR FATHER WHAT HE HAS BELIEVED FOR HOWEVER MANY S—THAT YOU ARE NOT HIS SON AND THE REASON WHY—ARE BOTH UNTE IS QUE AN CREDIBLE THG TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO,” CUMMG SAYS. “I THK I ALT WH THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY AND MIMIZED THE PA.” IN A PHONE LL ON SATURDAY JUNE 5, 2010, HIS FATHER TOLD CUMMG, “I DIDN’T DO THIS TO HURT YOU.” CUMMG, FUR, SAID HIS FATHER HAD “BASED YOUR ENTIRE LIFE ON A FALSE ASSUMPTN AND YOU MA ALL OUR LIV HELL.” CUMMG TOLD HIM HE WOULD NEVER SPEAK TO HIM AGA. “AYE,” HIS FATHER SAID—THE LAST THG HE WOULD EVER SAY TO HIM. ALEX CUMMG DIED ON SUNDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2010. DO CUMMG THK HIS FATHER’S MISUNRSTANDG RMED THE ABE? “I DO, BUT I DON’T THK WAS THE ROOT OF . I THK MAYBE WAS THE JTIFITN HE ED FOR THAT AND HOW HE TREATED MY MUM FOR HAVG WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS AN AFFAIR. WHEN YOU’RE ALG WH SOMEONE WHO IS MENTALLY ILL, TRYG TO RATNALIZE SOMETHG WHICH IS NOT RATNAL IS POTLS.”CUMMG ADDS, “HIS PSYCHE WAS NOT THE PSYCHE OF A WELL MAN. HE ULD NOT PROCS THE TTH. HE WAS A MONSTER. I THK HE WAS MENTALLY ILL, I’M NOT SURE WH EXACTLY WHAT. ASI OM HIS VLENCE AND IRRATNAL RAGE, THERE WAS HIS UTTER ABILY FOR EMPATHY OR TO UNRSTAND ANYONE’S FEELGS, THE BRAZENNS OF HIS BEHAVR, THE FACT THAT HE ULDN’T PUTE THAT ANYONE WAS AFFECTED OR OFFEND OR UPSET BY HIM. THAT’S A PERSONALY DISORR. THAT’S NOT SOMEBODY WHO IS FUNCTNG PROPERLY THE WORLD.” TOM RECEIVED THE SAME AMOUNT OF ABE AS ALAN; AND ALEX THOUGHT TOM WAS HIS BLOGIL SON, SO THKG ALAN WAS NOT DON’T SEEM TO HAVE MA MUCH A DIFFERENCE HIS TREATMENT OF EHER BOY. I ASK CUMMG IF HE THKS ANY OF THE ABE WAS HOMOPHOBIC. “I DON’T THK WAS A MAJOR FACTOR. I WAS LTLE, SLIGHT, A LATE VELOPER. TOM WAS A SPORTY, MACHO MAN, AND [HE] GOT THE SAME THG.”*****WAS CUMMG'S FATHER EVER WARM OR LOVG? “Y HE ULD BE,” THE ACTOR SAYS. "HE WAS CHARMG, VERY CHARISMATIC. AND HE WAS SEXY.” EVEN AFTER HIS ATH, HIS FATHER WASN’T DONE WH THE “MD-FUCKG,” AS CUMMG PUTS . HE LEFT HIS SONS OUT OF HIS WILL, THOUGH HE KNEW, UNR STTISH LAW AND THE WAY HE HAD LEFT HIS TATE, THAT WOULD REVERT TO THEM. THEY HAD TO CI WHAT TO DO, IF ANYTHG, WH HIS MONEY. CUMMG SHAK HIS HEAD. IN THEIR LAST NVERSATN, HIS FATHER DIDN’T SAY SORRY FOR ANYTHG. “HE DIDN’T HAVE ANY PREHENSN OF ANYTHG—JT TOTAL SELF-ABSORPTN.”THE ONLY SIGN OF NTRN ON HIS FATHER’S PART ME, SAYS CUMMG, WHEN HE NONTED HIM HIS LATE 20S. AS HE AND TOM WERE DRIVG AWAY, CUMMG SAYS HE SAW TEARS HIS FATHER’S EY. “SHORTLY AFTER THAT, MY FATHER'S PARTNER SPOKE TO MY BROTHER AND ASKED WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY, BEE MY FATHER WAS LOOKG AT PHOTOGRAPHS OF AS LTLE BOYS. I THK HE WAS TRYG TO FD THE HAPPY TIM, TO SHOW HE WASN’T ALL BAD. KNOWG HE DID THAT, THAT HE WAS MOVED BY , GAVE ME HOPE HE WAS GOG TO BE TOUCH…THEN HE NEVER DID.” CUMMG PS, S EFULLY. “HE REELED YOU AND LET YOU GO.”ALL CUMMG WANTED TO HEAR HIS FATHER SAY WAS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF WHAT HE HAD THOUGHT ALL THOSE YEARS WAS WRONG. “I KNEW I WASN’T GOG TO GET THAT. I KNEW HE WAS AN IRRATNAL MAN NOT ABLE TO SAY SORRY.” NOW CUMMG ONLY WISH HE’D ASKED HIS FATHER WHEN THE FIRST MOMENT OF THE MISAPPREHENSN TAKG SEED WAS, HOW OLD WAS THE YOUNG CUMMG AT THAT MOMENT, WHY DID HE WANT TO BELIEVE ALAN WASN’T HIS SON?MAYBE ALEX ED HIS WIFE’S IMAGED ADULTERY AS AN NER JTIFITN FOR HIS OWN FILI, I SAY. CUMMG AGRE, “LIKE THE THIEF WHO STEALS MONEY WHO THKS OTHERS ARE STEALG OM HIM. HE HAD SOME SORT OF MENTAL NDN THAT PRECLUD HIM OM ACTG RATNALLY AND WH EMPATHY AND RPECT.”WRG THE BOOK HAS GIVEN CUMMG “SOME SENSE OF CLOSURE,” A STATEMENT OF A “MORE HOLISTIC VERSN OF ME.” WHILE TALKG ABOUT THE EVENTS OF THE PAST “CHURNS THGS UP, IF ANYTHG HAS REERATED FOR ME NONE OF THIS WAS ABOUT ME. WHATEVER THE RULTS OF THE DNA TT, EVEN BEFORE THAT, I DIDN’T THK I WAS MY FATHER’S SON. I MARVEL AT THE FACT I AM RELATED TO THIS PERSON.”I ASK IF THERE IS ANYTHG OF HIS FATHER CUMMG. “A VORAC SEXUAL APPETE FELY. AND I’M A CHARMER. WHEN I WAS YOUNG I SAW A MAN WHO ULDN’T NTROL HIS URG, WHO ULDN’T NTROL HIMSELF AND DIDN’T. IT’S NOT LIKE HE ULDN’T HELP HIMSELF. EVEN AS A BOY, I UNRSTOOD LT I THK. I ULD SEE, ‘THAT’S WRONG, HIM DOG THAT.’ OBVLY HAVG AFFAIRS THE WAY HE DID—NORMALLY PEOPLE HI THAT, WHY DIDN’T HE? I ULD SEE HE DIDN’T HAVE NTROL OVER THAT.”SO, IF HIS FATHER WAS LIKE THAT, AND CUMMG SHAR HIS VORAC SEXUAL APPETE, HOW DO HE BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY? “MY ATTU TO ALL OF THAT IS, ‘WE ARE ANIMALS AND WE HAVE NEEDS AND WHY SHOULD WE PRETEND THAT’S NOT THE SE—AND LET’S BE KD.’ I’M KD: THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE. I LIKE SEX. I UNRSTAND MYSELF AND I’M KD.”CUMMG WAS ONCE MARRIED TO ACTRS HILARY LYON, AND HE ALSO HAD A RELATNSHIP WH ACTRS SAFON BURROWS. HE AND SHAFFER, WHO HE MARRIED NEW YORK 2012 FIVE YEARS AFTER HAVG A CIVIL PARTNERSHIP CEREMONY LONDON, DON’T HAVE AN OPEN RELATNSHIP, CUMMG CLARIFI. “I DON’T THK MONOGAMY IS A NATURAL STATE. IF SOMETHG DID HAPPEN THAT WOULDN’T BE THE WORST WAY I ULD BETRAY GRANT AND HE KNOWS THAT AND I FEEL THE SAME WAY. ANYTHG WE DO WE DO WH THE UTMOST KDNS AND RPECT TO ONE ANOTHER, BUT ’S NOT LIKE WE GO ROUND SHAGGG. WE DON’T GO OUT LIKE PEOPLE DO AND E HOME WH A DIFFERENT PERSON, ABSOLUTELY NOT.”*****CUMMG, WHO ACHIEVED FILM MEGA-STARDOM THE X-MEN MOVI, IS HAVG “GOOD FUN” SHOOTG THE GOOD WIFE, AND HAPPILY SURPRISED TO BE S SIXTH SEASON. IT MEANS LIVG AND WORKG NEW YORK, NOT FLYG ALL OVER THE PLACE ON LOTN FOR MOVI. HE AND JULIANNA MARGULI’S ALICIA “B EACH OTHER A B. SHE’S A B LIKE A DOMATRIX WH ME. JULIANA AND ME ARE MUCKERS, WE GET ON REALLY WELL.”SHE HAS THE MOST GEO HBAND TOO (KEH LIEBERTHAL), I SAY. “YEAH, AND SHE KNOWS ,” CUMMG LGHS. “SHE LOV TAKG HIM TO [SHOW TUNE BAR] MARIE’S CRISIS. LAST WEEK HE WENT TO THE OPERA, AND NAMED HIM BT-DRSED MAN OF THE WEEK, WHICH SHE LOVED.” THE GOOD WIFE IS HIS DAY JOB, CABARET HIS NIGHT JOB, CUMMG SAYS, AND HE ENJOYS THE BOOZY PARTI WH GOSSIP AND DANCG HE HAS HIS DRSG ROOM AFTERWARDS FOR FELLOW ST AND VISG CELEBRI AND IENDS. CUMMG IS ONE OF TV AND FILM’S BIGGT OUT-GAY STARS. WHAT DO HE THK OF THE LEVEL OF OUT-NS OF ACTORS? “TO BE HONT I DON’T REALLY RE. WHEN I HEAR SOMEONE ME OUT I THK, ‘THAT’S GOOD, THAT’S HEALTHY, THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE BLAH BLAH. I FEEL SAD IF I HEAR SOMEONE FEELS THEY N’T. BUT I’M A B BORED WH ALL. I’M A B BORED WH BEG A STORY. YOU WANT TO GET TO THE POT WHERE DON’T MATTER. I FEEL IF WE KEEP TALKG ABOUT SLOWS THE POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE DOWN.”NEXT YEAR CUMMG TURNS 50, WHICH HE FEELS “REALLY GOOD” ABOUT. HIS BELOVED LLIE-SHEPHERD HONEY DIED OF NCER THIS SUMMER, WHICH MA CUMMG THK ABOUT HIS OWN MORTALY. “SHE WAS SICK FOR A LONG TIME. THE CHEMO WAS SO AWFUL WE TOOK HER OFF . IT WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW I THK PEOPLE SHOULD DIE IF THEY CHOOSE TO, STEAD OF THE NSTANT ‘KEEP PEOPLE ALIVE AT ANY ST.’ SHE WASN’T HERSELF, SHE WAS REALLY UNHAPPY. MORE CHEMO WOULD HAVE EXTEND HER LIFE A UPLE OF MONTHS, BUT WE FELT WASN’T WORTH .” HONEY HAD “A LOVELY LAST WEEKEND” AT THE UPLE’S CATSKILLS HOME, THEN WAS PUT DOWN. “I ULDN’T AL WH WHEN THEY GAVE ME A LAMATED RD AND ASKED ME WHICH URN I WANTED.”CUMMG WOULD LIKE TO CHOOSE THE MOMENT HE DI, IF FACED WH A SIAR SUATN. “I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT OPTN FELY IF I’M GREAT PA, PECIALLY AMERI, WHERE THE DG DTRY IS SO POWERFUL—TAKE A PILL FOR THIS, YOU TAKE A PILL FOR THAT.”HE WORRI ABOUT HIS AGG MOTHER, BUT SHE’S CHIPPER AND HEADSTRONG: “IF SHE WANTS SOMETHG TO HAPPEN, WATCH OUT.” THE BOOK WAS WRTEN WH HER AND TOM’S BLSG. ALL THREE AGREE THAT THERE’S NOTHG SHAMEFUL BEG OPEN, SAYS CUMMG. MARY AND TOM ARE NCERNED FOR CUMMG, TOO, “AS THE PAST THERE HAS BEEN DIFFICULTY.” DO HE MEAN WHEN HE HAD HIS NERVO BREAKDOWN? DO HE EVER WORRY ABOUT HAVG ANOTHER? “I DON’T. THIS WEEK HAS FELY FELT A B EMOTNAL. BUT NO. I’M MUCH MORE NSC OF NOW. WHEN I PERFORMED MACBETH, WHICH WAS REALLY DISTURBG, MY MUM ME TO SEE AND SAID AFTERWARDS, ‘YOU’RE NOT GOG TO HAVE ANOTHER NERVO BREAKDOWN ARE YOU?’ I SAID, ‘NO, I’M FE. I’M JT PLAYG SOMEONE WHO IS.’”IS THERAPY HELPFUL? “I DON’T HAVE THERAPY TO STOP HAVG A NERVO BREAKDOWN, BUT I UNRSTAND THE VALUE OF THERAPY. I CHECK WH MYSELF AND SEE WHAT’S GOG ON.” WHEN CUMMG PERFORMED THE SEARG GAY NCENTRATN MP DRAMA BENT HE UNRSTOOD HE HAD TO LEAVE THE ROLE AT THE THEATER, HE SAYS; THE SAME WH MACBETH. “I’M A MORE SORTED OUT PERSON THAN I ED TO BE.” SHAFFER IS A VAL, CHERISHED AND CHERISHG GROUNDG FLUENCE. “HE IS A REALLY AMAZG PERSON, ’S HARD TO EXPLA THAT A BOOK WHOUT SOUNDG SACCHARE, BUT HE IS.”IT’S TIME TO LEAVE. DO CUMMG FEEL LIKE WE’VE SQUARED OUR CUR CIRCLE, I ASK. HE LGHS, SGS A FEW BARS OF ‘CIRCLE OF LIFE’ OM THE LN KG, AND THEN—WH HIS SWEET, FLIRTY BEAM ON FULL BLAST—SAYS SOFTLY, “BYE SIMBA.” TIM TEEMAN

Now Cummg has got me qutng my homosexualy -- and thkg about Salma Hayek some lears the bisexual movement fe , beg bisexual means beg attracted to your own genr and other genrs.

And all of those studi that aim to timate the size of the LGBT populatn fds bisexuals are a larger group than gays and lbians bed -- but you wouldn't know if lookg for proment voic Cummg is always clear about beg bisexual, the media hasn't always paid reful attentn to his inty.

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Alan Cummg on new seri "Instct" and why 's a "big step" for gay characters - CBS News .

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