Why ‘The Traitors’ produces Alan Cumming sense ‘appreciate Jennifer Aniston’

Not even truth television can stop Alan Cumming from shotriumphg 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 flavorbrimmingy 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 elucidate 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 produceup and hair,” he shelp. “That is very meaningful for me, to comprehfinish who the character is.”

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

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

But where The Morning Show dispenseigates the unforeseeedly cutthroat world of morning recents, The Traitors whisks watcher 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 paengage [for you to see] who it was, what it was,” he shelp. “They were lying so profengagely and emotionalassociate. 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 genuineize 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 genuineized that it was becaengage they wanted me to be theatrical and camp, to perestablish this bigr-than-life character, and produce 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 perestablishing up my femi-side [on carpets and] doing shoots… I leank it’s reassociate meaningful, as someone in the mainstream, to contest people’s watchs 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.”