Alan Cumming says ‘old white guys’ aren’t running the nation anymore

Scottish-American actor Alan Cumming shared a few choice words during his chat with with Michelangelo Signorile on SiriusXM Progress this week.

Cumming, 53, who stars as a gay ACT UP activist who lost his partner to AIDS in the new film After Louie, spoke candidly about his thoughts on a wide-range of social and political issues that shook the nation in recent months.

The Good Wife actor commended the survivors of the latest mass shooting in Florida as well as Time’s Up pioneers – who have both made their voices heard.

Cumming said in the new SiriusXM interview: ‘It feels like, hopefully, the last dying gasp of old white guys running everything.’

Cumming took a dig at President Trump

Actor Alan Cumming took a dig at President Trump and Harvey Weinstein in a Sirius XM interview where he said ‘it feels like the last gasp of old white guys running everything’

The Broadway performer commended today's youth as well as Time's Up pioneers in the chat

The Broadway performer commended today’s youth as well as Time’s Up pioneers in the chat

His dig was partially aimed at Donald Trump, as he said, ‘sadly we’ve got the worst of that in the White House.’

He spoke about brave kids who led the nationwide March For our Lives protests last weekend in support of stricter gun control.

More than 800 events took place, which were dubbed as one of the largest youth protests in history since the Vietnam era. Cumming said it is an ‘interesting’ time in society right now.

‘There is this whole thing in our society right now… media is a part of it, where young people are pissed off with the older generation because bad behavioral patterns are being condoned and allowed to be repeated.’

Cumming said 'we've got to stop' the abuse of power happening around the nation. US film producer Harvey Weinstein is pictured at an event in Cannes, France in May 2017, just months before his infamous sexual misconduct scandal went public

Cumming said ‘we’ve got to stop’ the abuse of power happening around the nation. US film producer Harvey Weinstein is pictured at an event in Cannes, France in May 2017, just months before his infamous sexual misconduct scandal went public

‘What the kids and the gun movement are about, and what women and men are saying about sexual misconduct and sexual assault and abuse of power,’ which is a really great way of saying, ‘we’ve got to stop this’. 

The new interview for the actor, who currently resides in New York, came amid his ‘After Louie’ premiere in theaters on Friday, which he also spoke about.

The film, written by Anthony Johnston and also director Vincent Gagliostro, has received rave reviews thus far. IndieWire called it ‘one of the most excited queer films’ in recent film.

Cumming plays the role of Sam, a man haunted by survivor’s guilt after watching his partner and other friends die at the height of the AIDS era, has resent toward the younger generation of gay men who he believes are entitled.

Cumming and Zachary Booth attend SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations: After Louie at The Robin Williams Center on March 26, 2018 in New York City

Cumming and Zachary Booth attend SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations: After Louie at The Robin Williams Center on March 26, 2018 in New York City

(L-R) Cumming, Vincent Gagliostro and Booth attend SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations: After Louie at The Robin Williams Center

(L-R) Cumming, Vincent Gagliostro and Booth attend SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations: After Louie at The Robin Williams Center

After Louie is now playing at Cinema Village, New York, and everywhere on demand. Actors Alan Cumming and Zachary Booth are pictured in the film

After Louie is now playing at Cinema Village, New York, and everywhere on demand. Actors Alan Cumming and Zachary Booth are pictured in the film

Sam becomes romantically involved with the much younger Braeden, who is played by Zachary Booth.  

Cumming joked to Signorile that straight folks could learn a thing or two same-sex relationships.

‘Having the understanding that you’re probably going to have sex outside of that, on whatever level – from an open relationship to an “Oops, that happened, never mind” – I think that’s very, very, very common,’ he said, about the reality of cheating in relationships and marriages.

‘I think, actually, that’s the biggest thing queer people can teach straight people.

‘Marriage equality will actually be a very positive thing for straight marriage, because hopefully people will learn that there are far worse ways to betray somebody than by having sex with someone else.’



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