Alan Cumming Details Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion 2 (Exclusive)

Alan Cumming is on board for the Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion sequel!

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

“It’s very exciting,” Cumming tells PEOPLE. “It’s been really fun actually talking to Robin [Schiff], the writer and Lisa [Kudrow] as well about it.” 

The authentic movie noticed the Friends star, 61, and Mira Sorvino because the titular characters: finest pals who had not achieved 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 through social media in January that she and Kudrow would even be serving as government producers this time round.

Cumming tells PEOPLE he “can’t really say much without giving too much away” by way of the plot, however that the discharge will arrive in 2027 — the yr of the movie’s thirtieth anniversary. 

“Obviously everyone’s still in each other’s lives,” he says, “But it may be in a different way… It’s nice to think of those characters still being old friends.”

Things are already in full swing, based on Cumming, who tells PEOPLE, “Next year we’d shoot it and it would come out the following year, which would be 30 years since the [first] movie came out.”

“So that’s kind of appropriate,” he says of the timing, admitting that it’s “hilarious and also terrifying.”

Cumming provides he is stayed shut with Kudrow all through the years. “I see Lisa,” he says. “We be in contact and discuss, sporadically.”

When it involves the remainder of the solid, the X2 actor tells PEOPLE, “Once in a while I run into Justin Theroux. Or, you know, Camryn Manheim I see a little 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 places being thought-about, The Hollywood Reporter beforehand stated.

In February 2023, Cumming instructed PEOPLE he can be “completely sport” to reprise his position 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 stated. “But yeah, completely. I’d be completely sport.”

The Traitors is obtainable to stream on Peacock.