The “Lord of the Rings” actor recently reflected on his own mortality and revealed that he has no plans to stop acting.
At 86 years old, Sir Ian McKellen, one of Hollywood’s most respected actors, reflected on his own mortality and revealed that he has no plans to stop working.
In a recent interview, the “Lord of the Rings” actor said that an accident in 2024, when he suffered a serious fall from the stage during a performance of the play “Player Kings” in London, forced him to confront the fact that he is not “immortal.”
According to a report by Unilad, the actor admitted that the fall, which resulted in a chipped vertebra and a fractured wrist, left him with an “emotional residue,” but also made him face the closeness of the end.
“In fact, the inevitability of mortality doesn’t come only from how you feel about yourself, but from the simple fact that your friends die — all the time. When you are young, death is something surprising, fascinating, but it is a feature of aging. Death becomes ever-present,” he explained.
But even after the major scare, the actor says he has no intention of stopping acting and is already confirmed to return as Gandalf in the upcoming “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum”, which is expected to premiere at the end of 2027, as well as Magneto in “Avengers: Doomsday”, which is scheduled for release in December this year.
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