Alan Cumming tackled 'violent and disturbing' role with David Morrissey
Alan Cumming is glad he was cast alongside his longtime pal David Morrissey in Russell T Davies' new drama Tip Toe because he felt "comfortable" tackling the "violent and disturbing" series with him.
Alan Cumming felt "comfortable" tackling "violent and disturbing" new series Tip Toe with David Morrissey.
The two actors have been cast as neighbours who become deadly enemies in Russell T Davies' new Channel 4 drama Tip Toe and Alan has admitted she's glad he was working with David because they have known each other for years so it was easier to be "vulnerable" with hi.
In an interview released by Channel 4, Alan explained: "This is the first time we’ve acted together though we’ve known each other since the 80s.
"We met in Bristol in 1989. His girlfriend at the time was in a play with me and it turned out he lived on the next street to me in London.
"We saw each other every day for a couple of years. We moved on but have always stayed friends."
He went on to add: "It was so great to do this with a friend, with someone I know and trust and love and who has been such a good friend to me for so long.
"He’s an absolutely solid, decent, beautiful human being. So to have that very violent and disturbing work to do with him, to make yourself that vulnerable when you feel that comfortable with someone it does make it easier.
"I can’t imagine doing some of that script with someone I was only getting to know."
In the show, Alan plays a gay man named Leo who runs a bar in Manchester, England opposite David as Clive, an unemployed electrician who becomes radicalized and Leo becomes the focus of his hatred.
David said of the disturbing role: "Where is Clive? He’s struggling for many reasons. His marriage is breaking down and his relationship with his children is breaking down and he doesn’t seem to have many friendships.
"He feels isolated and alone, as do many people in the drama. Tip Toe is about the lack of connection between us all.
"Why do we not believe things in front of our eyes but believe information that has been spun online, designed to keep us angry, keep us down and to other people, to make them the threat?
"Why has that replaced empathy, love and connection with our fellow human beings? The internet is not going back in a box now. It’s about how we manage it."
Tip Toe premieres on Sunday (31.05.26) at 9pm on Channel 4.
