Actor, 85, says he is taking the rest of the year off after accident in June but plans to keep playing Gandalf
Ian McKellen told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he had no plans to retire but would ‘keep at it as long as the legs, lungs and mind keep working’.Ian McKellen told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he had no plans to retire but would ‘keep at it as long as the legs, lungs and mind keep working’.Ian McKellen says he has recuperated from the broken bones he suffered after falling from the stage in June, but is still emotionally recovering from the incident.
The 85-year-old actor told the BBC he planned to continue working after being forced to take off the rest of the year because of the fall.“I shall just keep at it as long as the legs and the lungs and the mind keep working,” McKellen said on He added: “I’m physically recovered. I broke my wrist, which is what every kid who falls off his bike does, and that’s all right now. Chipped a little vertebra. Left a bit with a few aches and but not pains.”
But he added: “It’s emotionally that I’ve got some residue that I’ve got to deal with … I think there’s something inside me that has to be calmed down. But I’m feeling fine.” He confirmed that he feared his career was over as he fell from the stage. McKellen said: “I said to myself as I slid off the stage, ‘This is the end.’ Apparently I shouted out, ‘My neck is broken, I’m dying.’ I don’t remember saying that. So there was a lot going on in my head.”. He said: “I was playing Falstaff, who is a fat man, and I wore a fat suit to make me look fat – padded you see – no problem with ribs or my hips.
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