The new CBS drama "Instinct" is breaking ground as the first hour-long broadcast series featuring a gay character as the lead. But what drew Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming to the role wasn't that it was making history – but the fact that being gay wasn't the most important part of the character.
>"The gay thing is like, exactly, the fourth or fifth thing you see about the character, and I think that's a big step," Cumming told "CBS This Morning."
>Cumming, who also serves as an executive producer of the show, portrays Dr. Dylan Reinhart, a university professor and 마닐라 하얏트 호텔 former CIA operative who ends up helping New York police after a killer starts planning crimes based on his book
/>After Cumming's last TV gig on "The Good Wife" ended, he returned to a more "peripatetic" lifestyle, traveling and taking a variety of roles in theater and film. But when he got tscriptipt for "Instinct" he says it was too good an opportunity to pass up
/>"It was so many different facets of a character. It was sort of -- I mean, he's got so many different characteristics. And actually I think if you, when you think about going into a long-running, potentially long-running show, you want to make sure you don't get bored," he said. "I just really thought that was handled really, really well. And I think it's, you know, good on CBS for finally doing this
/>"Instinct" premieres Sunday, March 18 at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT
>"The gay thing is like, exactly, the fourth or fifth thing you see about the character, and I think that's a big step," Cumming told "CBS This Morning."
>Cumming, who also serves as an executive producer of the show, portrays Dr. Dylan Reinhart, a university professor and 마닐라 하얏트 호텔 former CIA operative who ends up helping New York police after a killer starts planning crimes based on his book
/>After Cumming's last TV gig on "The Good Wife" ended, he returned to a more "peripatetic" lifestyle, traveling and taking a variety of roles in theater and film. But when he got tscriptipt for "Instinct" he says it was too good an opportunity to pass up
/>"It was so many different facets of a character. It was sort of -- I mean, he's got so many different characteristics. And actually I think if you, when you think about going into a long-running, potentially long-running show, you want to make sure you don't get bored," he said. "I just really thought that was handled really, really well. And I think it's, you know, good on CBS for finally doing this
/>"Instinct" premieres Sunday, March 18 at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT
