Dermot Mulroney is raising eyebrows with a comment left on Alan Cumming’s recent Instagram post.

“I live my life on my own terms,” Cumming captioned a series of photos on Monday, January 27. “I don’t want to conform or follow the pack or ‘act my age’ because that means allowing other people’s opinions to dictate my existence, and I have always found the more I stick to my guns and am prepared to be vulnerable and authentic and true to myself the more successful and happy I am.”

The post was shared as Cumming celebrated his 60th birthday and featured images from Nasty Pig’s latest campaign, which Us Weekly revealed earlier this month.

“I can be queer and boring. I can be an activist and a hedonist. I can be a grown up Artistic Director and dance my tits off on the dance floor,” Cumming continued. “I can be a movie star and someone next to you on the bus. We all contain multitudes but if we stop being curious we’ll never access them.”

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A bunch of major names offered Cumming well wishes in the comments section, but one was more confusing than others.

“Happy Birthday, Alan,” Mulroney, 61, wrote. “Love you thanks for saving my life in Munich.”

No further details about this apparent incident were shared — but the two actors do have a shared history.

Cumming and Mulroney starred in the movie Intimate Affairs (also known as Investigating Sex), which premiered in 2001. The project, according to IMDb, filmed in Berlin, Germany, which may explain the Munich of it all.

The movie, which also starred Robin Tunney, Julie Delpy and Neve Campbell, was based on the book Investigating Sex: Surrealist Research 1928-1932. Mulroney stars as a professor named Edgar Faldo who hosts a group of friends to scientifically discuss the topic of sex, while Cumming plays an artist named Sevy, who is one of the friends hosted at Edgar’s home.

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Years later, Cumming and Mulroney briefly crossed paths in Hollywood — although they never shared the screen. Both actors appeared in the 2019 Fox series Prodigal Son.

Mulroney appeared as Nicholas Endicott during the show’s first season before (spoiler alert) getting murdered in the season 1 finale. When the second and final season came around in 2021, Cumming joined the show as Simon Hoxley, who was hired to solve the aforementioned murder.

The Hollywood connection between Cumming and Mulrony continues to live on.