A Quick Word With Alan Cumming

The gregarious star of stage and screen talks about his love affair with Adelaide, veganism and on-set snacks.

- Georgie Meredith

My first overseas trip was when I was about 12 or 13. It was a school trip to Germany. Bizarrely, we stayed in an industrial town in the Rhine Valley called Koblenz. I’m not quite sure why we went there, I guess it was a good spot to base ourselves. We travelled from there to Heidelberg. I had a few school trips to places in Europe. The following year I spent a summer doing an exchange in Lyon in France, but Germany was my first trip. Although I guess going to London was my first time travelling abroad if you count going to Scotland from England as going to another country, which I do.