Alan Cumming Particulars Romy and Michele’s Excessive Faculty Reunion 2 (Unique)

Alan Cumming is on board for the Romy and Michele’s Excessive Faculty Reunion sequel!

Talking completely to PEOPLE at an intimate brunch for Traitors at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles on Thursday, Might 15, the Scottish actor and tv host, 60, confirmed he will probably be reprising his function as Sandy Frink within the follow-up to the 1997 comedy.

“It’s extremely thrilling,” Cumming tells PEOPLE. “It has been actually enjoyable truly speaking to Robin [Schiff], the author and Lisa [Kudrow] as properly about it.” 

The unique movie noticed the Pals star, 61, and Mira Sorvino because the titular characters: finest buddies who had not completed all that they needed to by the point their 10-year highschool reunion happened.

Hijinks ensued when the women did their finest to impress their former classmates.

Sorvino, 57, introduced by way of social media in January that she and Kudrow would even be serving as govt producers this time round.

Cumming tells PEOPLE he “cannot actually say a lot with out giving an excessive amount of away” when it comes to the plot, however that the discharge will arrive in 2027 — the yr of the movie’s thirtieth anniversary. 

“Clearly everybody’s nonetheless in one another’s lives,” he says, “However it could be differently… It is good to think about these characters nonetheless being outdated buddies.”

Issues are already in full swing, in line with Cumming, who tells PEOPLE, “Subsequent yr we might shoot it and it will come out the next yr, which might be 30 years because the [first] film got here out.”

“In order that’s form of applicable,” he says of the timing, admitting that it’s “hilarious and in addition terrifying.”

Cumming provides he is stayed shut with Kudrow all through the years. “I see Lisa,” he says. “We communicate and speak, sporadically.”

In the case of the remainder of the forged, the X2 actor tells PEOPLE, “Every now and then I run into Justin Theroux. Or, , Camryn Manheim I see a little bit bit.”

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The sequel will probably be directed by Tim Federle, and is about to start out filming in June, with Los Angeles–space areas being thought of, The Hollywood Reporter beforehand mentioned.

In February 2023, Cumming informed PEOPLE he can be “completely sport” to reprise his function if he got the chance.

“I believed it was nice. I imply, there’s been hypothesis about it and rumors about it having a sequel for the final 25 years, I’ve to say,” he mentioned. “However yeah, completely. I might be completely sport.”

The Traitors is obtainable to stream on Peacock.