Ian McKellen Has No Plans to Retire: “I really feel I’m quite good at this acting thing now”
McKellen also opens up about his approach to acting, including noting the worst experience he ever had making a film.
McKellen also opens up about his approach to acting, including noting the worst experience he ever had making a film.
Both Hopkins and McKellen are putting on a master class and it’s not to be missed.
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Latarro chats about ‘Waitress’, working with actors and how she finds time for all of her projects.
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In the video, Sir Ian discusses – and impersonates – working with Dame Maggie in Richard III and her opinions on his taste in jewelry.
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“And I think when I decided to become professional, my only aim, really, was to get better as an actor.” – Ian McKellen
Sir ian McKellen covers all facets of his long career on stage and screen, including what’s it like playing Gandalf for approximately twenty hours of screentime!
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“Each part will have its challenges and I like that because if you’re trying to solve a problem you’re fully engaged” – Ian McKellen
“My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.” – Ian McKellen
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MR. HOLMES is a new twist on the world’s most famous detective.
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Shortly after portraying Macbeth on stage in the late 1970s, Ian McKellen appeared on a BBC program to analyze the play’s most famous soliloquy.
While ticket sellers and ushers at the Brixton Ritzy in London have been striking every Sunday for higher wages over the last several months, acting legend Sir Ian McKellen believes there are others who do not earn what they deserve: actors. McKellen believes that stage actors are deserving of a
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20th Century FOX should just give the keys to their X-Kingdom to Bryan Singer. Let him do whatever he wants with the series because clearly he’s the only one who can put mutants on film with any success. With the first X-Men and the terrific X2, he showed what he
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFJaqVG_nMY&w=560&h=315 Watch Sir Ian McKellen perform this monologue by Shakespeare. He plays the part of Sir Thomas More and everything about it is just incredible.
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Back in March, Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart sat down with Richard Ridge from Broadway World to a nice chat about their careers, Broadway and more. They were just ending their hugely successful run with Two Plays in Rep on Broadway – I saw Waiting for Godot and it
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Big-name brands spend millions of dollars a year on advertising. But when it comes to promoting a Broadway show, two old actors in bowler hats taking funny photos creates the type of publicity that money can’t buy. Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen masterfully used social media to promote
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. The beloved characters from the original “X-Men” film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from the past, “X-Men: First Class,” in order to change a major
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The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. The beloved characters from the original “X-Men” film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from “X-Men: First Class,” in an epic battle that must change the
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As if Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart weren’t busy enough taking hilarious photos together around New York City and starring in two plays on Broadway, Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land, they dropped in on the New York Daily News offices to answer fans’ questions. If you missed the
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As if anyone needed more excuses to see Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart performing No Man’s Land and Waiting for Godot in repertory at the Cort Theatre on Broadway (the production has once again extended through March 30), the cast is doing talkbacks after select performances of No Man’s
While not every professional actor is a good source of advice (just trust me on that), an actor as respected as Ian McKellen ought to have at least one or two pieces of good advice to pass along to aspiring actors. During a rare break from acting in his current
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