Promoting his memoir Not My Father’s Son, actor Alan Cumming is the subject of FourTwoNine’s most recent cover story. Shooting in New York, Cumming links up with photographer Bjorn Iooss and stylist Moses Moreno. In his memoir, Cumming opens up about his abusive father. Discussing his decision to write after his father’s death, Cumming reveals, “But I’m nervous enough about it as it is. And I’ve been questioning why I’m feeling so nervous about it. Am I nervous about people knowing all this stuff about me, or am I just nervous about their being snide about it? Actually, I was nervous about my father’s anger about my deciding to write about it. But he’s not going to be angry because he’s not here. He had to be dead, in a way, though, for me to do it. It all had to be contained thoroughly in the past. The past had to be its own entity. What I wanted to say is that all this happened to me. It is a part of who I am. If you think you know who I am, it will shock you. Even if you don’t know who I am, it is shocking. But if you do have an idea of who I am, there is this whole other part of my life that got me to where I am today. It was crazy.” Read more at Dot429.com.
