Alan Cumming

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

When he published his first memoir back in 2014, the actor and author Alan Cumming took a deep dive and opened up about his traumatic childhood. In his second memoir, Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life, he dispels the myth that he had 'overcome' his trauma or 'triumphed' over it. Cumming believes that a willingness to be vulnerable is what captivates audiences, whether it be on stage or on screen, and he boasts an eclectic filmography ranging from Stanley Kubric's Eyes Wide Shut to Spice World. In this episode of Full Disclosure, he speaks to James about what he values about all of these experiences. His second memoir is out now.

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0:38.8	Hello and welcome to full Disclosure, a podcast project designed to let me spend more time
0:43.3	than is available on my radio show with fascinating people.
0:47.0	A category into which this week's guest fits very snugly.
0:50.7	Alan Cumming, thank you for joining us.
0:52.3	I'm pleasure.
0:53.9	I'm going to start by complimenting the title of your new book,
0:56.9	which will sound like I've done no research at all.
0:59.7	Great title, Alan.
1:01.1	Great title.
1:02.2	But, I mean, baggage, which becomes sort of fairly self-examatory, fairly quickly.
1:08.4	And then tales from a fully packed life.
1:11.0	You get it. Well, life. You get it.
1:11.7	Well, of course I get it.
1:13.4	But it's a bit of an understatement almost.
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