--- description: No matter how big of a Romy and Michele fan you are, you're apparently going to be hard-pressed to get Alan Cumming to reenact his iconic dance. title: Alan Cumming Will Not Do the Romy and Michele Dance for You image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b1326250c21834/69893215db2987bbef25fd48/romy-and-micheles-high-school-reunion_haelnr.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Alan Cumming Probably Won't Do the _Romy and Michele_ Dance With You So Stop Asking  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jun 1, 2018 4:19 PM CUT  Lisa Kudrow, Alan Cumming, and Mira Sorvino, in 'Romy and Michele's High School Reunion'. Lisa Kudrow, Alan Cumming, and Mira Sorvino, in 'Romy and Michele's High School Reunion'.Buena Vista Pictures  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Jun 1, 2018 4:19 PM CUT No matter how big of a [_Romy and Michele_](http://time.com/4250658/stage-musical-romy-and-micheles-high-school-reunion-seattle/ "undefined")fan you are, you’re apparently going to be hard-pressed to get [Alan Cumming](http://time.com/3911972/tony-awards-kristin-chenoweth-alan-cumming/ "undefined") to reenact his iconic _High School Reunion_ [dance](http://time.com/5246062/westworld-season-2-delos-dance/ "undefined") with you. During a recent appearance on [PeopleTV’s _Couch_ _Surfing_](http://ew.com/movies/2018/06/01/alan-cumming-romy-and-michele-dance/ "undefined") to promote his new show _Instinct_, the Scottish actor revealed why he’s probably not that keen on recreating the [scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGj4TGz3408 "undefined") from the 1997 cult classic in which his character Sandy performs an interpretive dance to Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” with both Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow). “People actually ask me—and think I’m going to do it—they ask me, ‘Would you come and do the _Romy and Michele_ dance with me and my husband or me and my wife at our wedding?’ Fairly often,” he told host Lola Ogunnaike. “I just think they think it’d be a hilarious thing, it’s worth an ask, I might do it, but \[it’s\] people I don’t know.” However, that’s not to say he doesn’t enjoy videos of others imitating the trio’s moves. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5298614/alan-cumming-romy-and-michele-dance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5298614/alan-cumming-romy-and-michele-dance/"},"headline":"Alan Cumming Probably Won't Do the Romy and Michele Dance With You So Stop Asking","datePublished":"2018-06-01T16:19:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:12.043Z","description":"But he does enjoy seeing others reenact it","url":"https://time.com/5298614/alan-cumming-romy-and-michele-dance/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b1326250c21834/69893215db2987bbef25fd48/romy-and-micheles-high-school-reunion_haelnr.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58b1326250c21834/69893215db2987bbef25fd48/romy-and-micheles-high-school-reunion_haelnr.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Alan Cumming Romy and Michele's High School Reunion","caption":"Lisa Kudrow, Alan Cumming, and Mira Sorvino, in 'Romy and Michele's High School Reunion'","creditText":"Buena Vista Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5298614/alan-cumming-romy-and-michele-dance/","name":"Alan Cumming Probably Won't Do the Romy and Michele Dance With You So Stop Asking"}}]}] ```