Thinking about the remarkable body of work that Sir Ian McKellen has produced - a career spanning 74 years - three quarters of a century! And yet this incredible resumé will forever be reduced to shouting at your family YOU SHALL NOT PASS whenever you find a big stick in the woods
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@TheBreadmonkey I know what you mean. But I think I will remember him for a stage show he did (I saw a recording, not in real life) where he gave a quote from every single Shakespeare play. That was impressive.
I think he will be remembered as a great actor. Who really brought everything to bear on that one line, so you totally believe it.
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Who knows another film than the original Star Wars where Alec Guinness has played?
(I personally have seen only one other film from his long career.)
@TheBreadmonkey @noodlemaz I will have to resist the urge to bellow, "BLESSED'S DEAD?!' at everyone in my vicinity whenever Sir Brian ultimately pops his clogs.
@TheBreadmonkey He's amazing. Once my boss took our team to see his Widow Twankey at the Young Vic and somehow we had a box right by the stage. He kept popping over to grab a sip of my colleague's vodka (which she was delighted by, of course)
@TheBreadmonkey that's the curse of acting…
@TheBreadmonkey did you see his Shakespearean soliloquy when he was Steven Colbert’s guest recently? A four hundred year old dig at the current administration.
@TheBreadmonkey It was. I expect he prepared, but even so.
@TheBreadmonkey I’m not a big fan of his, and, obviously, James Corden is execrable, but I may go to see The Christophers today.
Back when I lived in Manchester, a colleague of mine said he met him in a pub. Sir Ian McKellen was sat up at the bar and my colleague blurted out "Holy shit, it's Gandalf!". To which Sir Ian turned to him and said "I think you've mistaken me for someone else. I'm Magneto."
😂
@TheBreadmonkey At least he wasn’t in Harry Potter. Pretty much every other British actor’s resume is reduced to “Harry Potter star” when they die. When Ian Brown dies, it’ll be “Harry Potter actor Ian Brown”.
(note: Ian McKellan is not dead)
@TheBreadmonkey Hahaha! Of course I do this!
Picked up a long straight branch of fallen cherry wood, weighed its potential as a staff, and looked innocently at my daughter who is my film-nerd cinema buddy.
"Don't," she said, then sighed as I assumed the pose and took a deep breath....
