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.
Movie Review: Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins Star in ‘The Dresser’
Both Hopkins and McKellen are putting on a master class and it’s not to be missed.
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Choreographer Lorin Latarro Talks Broadway’s New Musical, ‘Waitress’
Latarro chats about ‘Waitress’, working with actors and how she finds time for all of her projects.
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Sir Ian McKellen Does His Best Maggie Smith Impression
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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Ian McKellen on Working with Child Actors and How He Transitioned from a Stage Actor to a Screen Actor
“And I think when I decided to become professional, my only aim, really, was to get better as an actor.” – Ian McKellen
Watch: Conversations with Sir 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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Ian McKellen on CGI, the One Character He Wants to Play and Why He Doesn’t Like Being Called “Sir”
“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
Sir Ian McKellen on ‘Mr. Holmes’ and Why Coming Out Made Him a Better Actor
“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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Watch: Ian McKellen Analyzes the ‘Macbeth’ Speech, “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” ‘(1979)
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.
Ian McKellen Believes There Should be a “Living Wage” for Stage Actors
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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Review: ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’
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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Watch: Spend Some Time with Sir Ian McKellen & Sir Patrick Stewart
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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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart’s New York Adventures Racked Up Huge Social Media Numbers
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
Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen Talk Acting in Live New York Daily News Chat
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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Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and the Cast of Broadway’s ‘No Man’s Land’ Holding Post-Show Talkbacks and We Were There
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
Ian McKellen Dishes Advice on Acting, Fame and Life
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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Broadway Actor Shuler Hensley: “I encourage people not to look in the mirror and say ‘I’m this’ or ‘I’m that’ if you have a desire to do multiple things”
Though Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are obviously the stars of the productions of Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land now on Broadway, even those two can’t play all the roles themselves (thought who wouldn’t like to see them try?) One of the other actors involved is Shuler Hensley,
Patrick Stewart on His Early Career Struggles and What He Learned About Acting from Working at a Furniture Store
I’m not one to assume that so-and-so actor is awesome in “real life,” but when it comes to a guy like Patrick Stewart exceptions must be made. Though Stewart has always been a fan favorite since starring as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation, his popularity has
If You Don’t Love this Picture of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Elmo, There is Something Wrong with You
Patrick Stewart tweeted this picture he took with Ian McKellen and Elmo last Friday and everything about it is all kinds of wonderful.
Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the Pinter/Beckett Repertory on Broadway
Tony Award winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley will join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the limited season repertoire of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
