TV Alan Cumming recalls the time he got burned by liquid nitrogen on the set of GoldenEye By Maureen Lee Lenker Maureen Lee Lenker Maureen Lee Lenker is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly with over seven years of experience in the entertainment industry. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies, Ms. Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, and more. She's worked at EW for six years covering film, TV, theater, music, and books. The author of EW's quarterly romance review column, "Hot Stuff," Maureen holds Master's degrees from both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford. Her debut novel, It Happened One Fight, is now available. Follow her for all things related to classic Hollywood, musicals, the romance genre, and Bruce Springsteen. EW's editorial guidelines Published on May 31, 2018 05:10PM EDT Watch the full episode of Couch Surfing streaming now on PeopleTV.com, or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite device. Bond villains always meet gruesome ends, and Alan Cumming’s Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye met a particularly chilling death when he was frozen to death by computer coolant in an explosion. It turns out filming the sequence was also quite hairy for Cumming, who was burned by liquid nitrogen in the process. The Scottish actor and star of CBS’ Instinct joined PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing to look back at past roles and revealed the Bond accident to host Lola Ogunnaike. He explains that there was a model made of his body for the character when we see him frozen to death, but he had to film the transition scenes which resulted in his getting burned by liquid nitrogen used to create the smoke effects on set. “When I was shooting it I had a strap thing around me that held me so I couldn’t move when all the stuff started to fall,” he says. “There were some big lumps of liquid ice, liquid nitrogen at the bottom of the thing, and it landed on my head and I couldn’t move. It started burning my head.” He recounts that he started screaming, but he was unable to get away because he was strapped so tightly into position. “These firemen came rushing on to the set and put my hair out,” he concluded. Cumming also discusses the character’s trademark pen trick in the scene, and how difficult it was for him to learn to do, made all the more complicated by the pen on set being very different in size and shape than the one he had practiced with. Watch the clip above for more.