TV Guide Interview with Alan Cummings ("Billie Blaikie")
It's an L of a Time for Alan Cumming
Here are a few interesting excerpts:
TVGuide.com: These days, you can be seen on The L Word, playing Billie Blaikie, manager of the Planet. How is Pam Grier as a boss?
Cumming: She's great, I love her. It was funny, because I do this thing on the Sundance Channel with my dog, where we introduce films and afterward my dog gives a "paws up" or "paws down," and one of the films we screened last summer was Foxy Brown. Literally a week after that, I got the call to do The L Word. I loved Pam, she's so fun and easy.
TVGuide.com: The L Word, as in some of your other roles, occasionally finds you in a corset, in drag and such. Is there any actress you channel when done up so?
Cumming: No. The thing about all that stuff is I just sort of forget I have it on. It's quite funny because of course there's the shock value, but when you're inside it you forget - and that makes you a bit more confident, I suppose. It's that good combo where you're still obviously a man but are playing with the notion of what exactly that means. But no, there's nobody I channel, because each role is very different.
TVGuide.com: Is Billie due for any serious hookups? I understand there is a moment to come with Daniela Sea's Moira-Max that may leave us... with mouths agape?
Cumming: Oh, you've seen that? Daniela and I have a very, very steamy [encounter]. I can imagine it's probably the first time that type of sexual act has been seen on television.
TVGuide.com: But what about Mia Kirshner's poor Jenny?
Cumming: Well... this will give her more crying scenes. [Laughs]
YIKES!!! A Moira/Billie sex hook-up? This will be interesting...