Alan Cumming: ‘The Traitors castle is a very strange place’

Scotland is affluent with history, ghostly tales and isolated castles, but Perthshire-born Alan Cumming was struck by however ‘strange’ The Traitors castle is.

No, Ardross Castle is not creepy, the 59-year-old histrion assures Metro.co.uk – but that that could beryllium due to the fact that erstwhile he’s determination hosting the US mentation of the BBC deed amusement – besides filmed present – determination is simply a buzz of radical which could fell thing hair-raising.

‘If I was successful it astatine nighttime connected my own, I accidental it mightiness beryllium different,’ helium says. ‘But it’s besides a set, due to the fact that a batch of the walls are built retired owed to each the concealed cameras and everything.’

Alan – who conscionable won an Emmy for hosting the deed world contention – really truly likes the 19th period castle. But it is peculiar.

‘There’s tons of derelict rooms. It’s benignant of a strange, fractional finished place, and past we travel successful and tart it each up and marque it each weird with each the cameras and everything.

‘So it’s a fascinating place, and it’s got large history. It was really erstwhile owned by the radical who did Lea and Perrins sauce.’

Aside from the Traitors lurking successful the nighttime acceptable to – not really – termination disconnected the Faithful opponents and banish them from the show, Alan doesn’t deliberation there’s thing supernatural going connected successful the Inverness castle. He would beryllium the archetypal 1 to sniff retired specified a happening if determination was.

‘I benignant of consciousness similar energy. Not similar ghosts, similar radical with a expanse connected and things similar that, but erstwhile you spell into a spot and you consciousness the vigor of something, I decidedly judge successful each that,’ helium says.

‘Even erstwhile you locomotion into a room, sometimes you prime up connected energy. I deliberation that’s what I would deliberation of arsenic ghosts – arsenic a benignant of the vigor near down by people.

‘In my location successful Scotland I felt that, and the location is built successful the 1700s truthful there’s a batch of past and vigor successful that place.’   

Alan lives betwixt New York and Scotland and his latest enactment has taken him to the skies supra the iconic West Highland Way, as helium is narrating Uber’s caller seaplane experience.

‘It volition beryllium a spot weird to spell connected and perceive myself explaining things,’ Alan says, arsenic helium volition technically beryllium giving himself a guided circuit of his location state erstwhile helium tests retired the journey.

Perhaps astir famously, Alan took to the winding Scottish roads with fable of each legends Miriam Margolyes, which made for some a tear-jerking and eye-wateringly comic question TV amusement successful Alan and Miriam: Lost successful Scotland and Beyond.

‘What you spot is what you get with Miriam,’ Alan says. ‘She’s hilarious, naughty, but she’s besides benignant and saccharine arsenic well. She wears herself connected her sleeve. So I mean, I deliberation that she’s everything you’d anticipation and more, successful existent life, she’s truly a darling.’

She’d besides beryllium perchance the champion UK Traitors personage contestant of each time, I offer, arsenic this spin-off amusement is presently successful the works.

‘She’d beryllium hilarious,’ agreed Alan, whose personage suggestions aren’t truly imaginable – unless Ardoss Castle was so haunted.

‘The radical I was conscionable reasoning of are each dormant actually, truthful we can’t person them. That’d beryllium bad,’ helium jokes.

Noele Gordon was the archetypal celeb who sprang to Alan’s caput – but she’s been dormant for astir 50 years. No, that wouldn’t marque precise bully television, I silently agree.

‘I’m ne'er truly bully astatine celebrities,’ Alan admits. ‘Maybe… I don’t know… Delia Smith. Is Delia inactive with us?’

Delia is inactive with us.

As helium approaches 60, Alan is precise overmuch inactive with america too. While immoderate radical deliberation of him arsenic a scatty person, he’s not really. Juggling truthful galore projects takes a definite magnitude of organisation, convey you precise much.

‘I’m ever fascinated erstwhile radical bash impersonations of maine and I’m similar a small elf oregon something,’ helium says.

Alan has a definite youthfulness astir him, I constituent out.

‘Physically, I exercise, I spell to the gym, I bash yoga, swim, I bash worldly similar that. I’m vegan, and, you know, instrumentality a tonne of vitamins. I bash each those sorts of things,’ helium says.

‘But I deliberation it’s much benignant of a spiritual thing. I’m inactive curious. I deliberation that’s the thing. I deliberation erstwhile radical get older, they often go little funny astir life, and truthful get boring. That keeps you feeling young, adjacent though you’re not.’

If helium were to conscionable that small lad increasing up successful Scotland, Alan would archer him not to beryllium acrophobic to beryllium himself.

‘Stop ever trying to beryllium cleanable oregon pretending to beryllium perfect, and really I deliberation you realise that your imperfections are the things that marque you absorbing and different,’ Alan says.

‘So I deliberation that’s what I archer my younger self: don’t beryllium acrophobic to amusement yourself.’

Alan Cumming is narrating the Uber Seaplane, wherever customers tin instrumentality to the skies successful a backstage level implicit the Scottish Highlands. Book present astatine uberseaplanescotland.co.uk for flights taking spot from the 21st-23rd September.

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