Actors do not build the kind of eclectic career that Alan Cumming and Michael Urie have enjoyed without leaning into the unexpected.
The audience is equally likely to see them act on the small screen (Cumming was three times Emmy-nominated for playing the infinite Eli Gold on “The Good Wife”, Urie is the emotionally centering stage stealer at Therapeutic Dramedy “Shrinking), host for the latest Glitzy Award The media), or London or London and London, London, London, London, London, Lays London, Lay London, Lay London.
“I get to do this TV show, I just made a Broadway -Show, I’m produces a queer theater festival. If my life continues to be varied that way, maybe not quite as varied as Alan Cumming’s career, but if I will go from a studio to a scene to a brain confidence for people who make ways to expand Queer Theater, if I still do, I think it would be fantastic, “shared Urie in the latest section of” Visionaries, “Thewrap’s,” Thewrap’s, “Thewrap’s,” Thewrap’s, “Thewrap’s” TheWrap’s Long. Fantastic, “Urie shared in the latest episode of” Visionaries, “Thewrap’s Long Form Series Series Series Radiation The Year Lighture and Multi-Hy-Hy-Hy-Hytate.
“I think we are pretty much the same in that respect. As, things are shown and you think,” I’ll give it once. “We give things once! You know what it is? We are curious. That’s what I think. I just said this the other day, but when you stop being curious, you do not die literally, but to be curious means you are in life and you are excited about the new and you are excited about people. And that is what I see in you, a kind of gnan, a kind of sparkle.
Cumming sat for Thewrap and joined Urie for an extensive, 45-minute conversation about their lives and careers, from early inspirations to their developing roles in entertainment. Urie discussed his trip to the “shrinking” series, where he plays a lawyer who navigates friendship, sadness and the chosen family. While cumming reflected on its eclectic path, the challenges of hosting the “traitors” and the value of creative risk and curiosity.
However, the real takeaway from their exciting deep dive cannot be credited to any of them, but instead to the legendary Patti Smith. Cumming told us about feeling unsure about doing “burn”, his 2022 dance theater piece about the famous Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns. He shared that Smith’s response to the internal problems with ”I may not be able to do this, is it too much?“Was” the biggest thing ” – and words to live by all artists.
“You sometimes know that you take on something and you think,” Oh my God, why do I do this? “I had this conversation with her about this idea about why some artists feel the need to do it every now and then. And I just told her that I am really interested in this idea of why we must feel that we might fail. And I was just thinking,” Patti Smith you should start a cult. “I guess she did.”
“It’s such a beautiful way to express it because that’s what we do as artists,” Urie joined. “And since we live in such a commercial society where there are critics and cash office and show get – and all this, right, prices – and your show is interrupted, your show is closed, whatever. We look at things like success and failure, but that’s true.”
To hear more about Cumming playing “Castle -Stern Daddy” while he hosted the “traitors” and Urie’s experience of acting with Jason Sail and Harrison Ford for “Shrinking” (“It is this fantastic thing that just came out of nowhere”), look at their full “visionaries” episode above.
