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The Traitors host Alan Cumming says his amazing outfits are daunting, meaningful, and a monster: "We talk a lot about how far can we take it"
You might love Alan Cumming's outfits on The Traitors, but the Peacock reality host says, "we've created a monster"
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Alan Cumming knows why you’re really watching The Traitors, and he wants you to know that he loves all those astonishing outfits, as well.
“We’ve created a monster, and it’s quite daunting in that respect,” Cumming told The Hollywood Reporter about his amazing costume choices for the Peacock reality series. (The fourth season begins early next year.) “We talk a lot about how far can we take it. There are times when I’m basically wearing a suit and a hat and other times where I’m wearing insane headdresses. I’m a 60-year-old man and I’m being this fashion clotheshorse, an androgynous fusion of all these feminine, crazy outfits.”
As fun as his looks can be — fun enough that people have spent time to rank them from worst to best online — Cumming also thinks that they aren’t necessarily just fashion, but could also be something more meaningful.
“It’s a healthy thing to put that message [about being enthusiastically, gleefully, androgynous] out into the world, especially in the times we’re living in with such terrible persecution of people who are different, who are fluid or who are trans. I’m basically being a nonbinary person a lot of the time. I hope that helps the conversation in America right now.”
The Traitors seasons 1 through 3 are streaming on Peacock now. Tune in for Alan Cumming, stick around for all the messiness of everything else.
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