Ian McKellen confronts gay issues while promoting new series, ”The Prisoner,” waiting on ”Hobbit” contract
”We’re discovering who the enemy are, and I do think we do have an enemy. It means that everyone’s got to go on fighting. And in what way you fight, well, it depends who you are. You can write a letter, you can talk about it to your congressperson, you can talk to people in bars. Or you can go on marches, or you can go and break windows.”
Sir Ian McKellan speaking with IMRU, an LGBT radio program in L.A., regarding the fight over gay marriage. (ContactMusic)
”When I act, some people fancy me and some of them are women. There we are! What’s the problem? They don’t believe me when I say I am in love with a woman?…They don’t believe me when I say I am a wizard? They believe me even though they know I am not. It’s all nonsense. Everyone knows we are acting.”
Actor Sir Ian McKellen talking to younger gay actors who still fear that coming out publicly may hurt their career. (Reuters)
”I don’t know what I did right with my career, but the minute I came out and said I was gay, my film career took off, and here I am…. Not Gandalf the Gay, Galdalf the Gray…. We’re going to do more, because there’s that wonderful book, ‘The Hobbit,’ which was writted before ‘Lord of the Rings.’ And were going to make movies out of there in New Zealand, and I’m gong to be there. I haven’t got a contract yet, so if there’s any problem, please support me.’‘
Actor Sir Ian McKellen on The View last week discussing his career, his new AMC TV series, ”The Prisoner,” and the probability of him reprising the roll of J.R.R. Tolkien’s wizard, Gandalf. Unfortunately, a rather ill Whoopi Goldberg confused his role as the wizard Gandalf with the wizard Dumbledore from ”Harry Potter.” McKellen seemed a wee bit annoyed when he explained that they were different actors. (The View)
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