ALAN CUMMING on CROSSING THE ATLANTIC

CHARLIE HOBBS

I went on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 for the first time in 2011. A lot of weird stuff was happening in my family back then: My father had recently died and, right before that, told me I wasn’t his biological son. A few years prior, my mum’s partner passed away as well. They loved to do this sailing, so I thought it’d be nice for her and me to do it together and process everything going on in our lives. I’d just made a movie in Los Angeles, and when I finish a film I love leaving the next day and doing something completely different, so I flew to meet my mum in Southampton. Sailing across the Atlantic was a profound experience as well as an odd one, jet-lag-wise; the…

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