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Alan Cumming has played all sorts of characters in his long career, but his role in the new film, “My Old School,” was a particular challenge. The gay actor stars as Brandon Lee, who made a lot of noise in Scotland back in the mid 1990s.
Lee enrolled at a secondary school in Glasgow in 1993 and a few years later a secret about his true identity came out: he wasn’t a teenager, but a 30-year-old man. The story made headlines around the world at the time.
“It was a huge story,” Cumming, who is Scottish, said. “It’s still major.”
Director Jono McLeod was in school at the time and was a classmate of Brandon’s. Like the rest of the school, he eventually found out the truth about his fellow student.
“When you are a teenager, you are so focused on other things,” he recalls. “I remember getting phone calls to tell me. We all heard a little while before the newspapers; word went around the kids. I remember a friend phoning me and telling me [the whole story]. Basically, it wasn’t until all the press that we realized it was bigger than we anticipated.”
Cumming was originally slated to direct an earlier film about Lee, but it fell through.
“In 1997, I was asked to direct it and not be in it,” he said. “In 1999, it all fell apart. It’s a funny thing that a quarter of a century later it all came back to me. Jobs fall apart all the time — you have to be sanguine about it. I am so lucky to embody [Brandon] in this form, in a way that I think is much better. This is much more about the people who experienced it and I think it’s more entertaining because of that.”
For McLeod, Cumming was the only actor he envisioned for the project.
“We were always aware that Alan was meant to be Brandon back in the 1990s,” he said. “We grew up with this
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