While it's hard to imagine anyone else playing the iconic wizard nowadays, McKellen says that he wasn't the first (or even second) choice for the part
. “I certainly wasn’t the first choice for Gandalf,” he continued. “Tony Hopkins turned it down. Sean Connery certainly did. They’re all coming out of the woodwork now, and I hope they feel silly.”McKellen has addressed his one-time competitors in the past, always with a similarly flippant tone.
“I still don’t quite know how Gandalf came my way,” he toldin 2021. “I think because some of the actors who would have been offered it before me were rather put off by the idea of having to live in New Zealand for a year. ‘Where the hell is that?’ Well, more fool them.”does not include the late, great Christopher Lee who reportedly really (like...
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