Today I am having an unexpectedly lazy day in NYC. It's been a while!
Both the meetings I was supposed to have today had to be rescheduled so now I am catching up on things and generally processing what has been going on with me in the last couple of weeks.
I finished Macbeth at the Lincoln Center festival last Saturday and immediately my body crashed. I think it was a combination of doing two shows on the last day (a feat that should only be demanded of the criminally insane or athletic masochists) as well as it being the end of the run and therefore my body knew it was allowed to let go and ask for help, but I spent a few days away just resting and trying to get my old bones to stop hurting. I felt a bit like my dog Honey. She is 12 now and when she has been sleeping for a while she is really stiff and a bit limpy for a minute when she wakes up. I was the same. Each morning I would creak down the stairs, holding onto the rail and longing for my body to warm up so I could start to function properly. Ah showbiz. Anyway, Macbeth was the most amazing and challenging thing I have ever done and I am so happy to have achieved it and affected people in the way that we did. I had a great time in Glasgow with my old friends from the National Theatre of Scotland and we had a fantastic packed and supportive run at Lincoln Center festival in New York, where I had previously performed The Bacchae with NTS four years ago.
I am also very excited that my photography exhibition Alan Cumming Snaps! has been on display at the 200 Gallery in Provincetown as well as the OUT Hotel in New York City. Sadly I didn't make it out to P'Town but I hear it was a blast
I started back on Season 4 of The Good Wife and it is looking to be a great season. Eli is back on the campaign trail where I think he functions best so I am looking forward to some juicy political masterminding over the next 9 months.
And I just got back from LA where I won the Best Actor award at Outfest for Any Day Now. The movie also won the audience award, as it has at every festval it has screened at: Tribeca, Proveincetown and Seattle. I also won the Best Actor at Seattle. I am really proud of this film and so excited that it will be released late 2012.