After 50 years playing everything from Gandalf to gangsters, the beloved 'national institution' explains why acting keeps him saneNext week, it will be 50 years since Sir Ian McKellen first walked out on stage, at the Belgrade theatre in Coventry. "I couldn't believe my luck," he says when I ask him what it felt like. "I had done a lot of theatre-going when I was a kid, which is how I got interested but I had nev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:59PM on August 24, 2011