Alan Cumming Says He Doesn't Believe in Being 'Coy' About Nudity in His New Play

Alan Cumming stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers on Monday (January 28) and talked all about the opening of his new Off-Broadway play Daddy by Jeremy O. Harris!

The 54-year-old actor dished about the nudity in the play: “There is a lot of nudity of myself and that gentleman there, Ronald Peet,” Alan confessed. “This is another exploration of race and queerness and intergenerational things. And, there’s a swimming pool onstage. I play an art collector in LA, and I’m very rich, and I have a big, swanky house, so there’s a pool, and a lot of the time I’m naked in the pool.”

“The good thing I think about nudity,” Alan continued. “I think if you’re going to do it — especially with this play, which is about really important discussions about things I think should be talked about, and we’re not talking about them in this country enough—the nakedness, you can’t be coy about things like that. So I’m like, ‘Let’s just do it, and hopefully after a couple of minutes people will stop checking you out and listen.’”

Alan also explained how he got a concussion while performing in Cabaret, and talks about taking his mom on a cruise and shares a grim fact about the boat they were on.

Click inside to watch the rest of Alan Cumming’s appearance on Late Night…