{"id":103153,"date":"2024-06-08T08:09:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T08:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/sir-ian-mckellen-85-always-thinks-his-latest-job-will-be-his-last-id-better-get-it-right\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T08:09:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T08:09:21","slug":"sir-ian-mckellen-85-always-thinks-his-latest-job-will-be-his-last-id-better-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/sir-ian-mckellen-85-always-thinks-his-latest-job-will-be-his-last-id-better-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ian McKellen, 85, always thinks his latest job will be his last: ‘I’d better get it right…’"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n

Sir Ian McKellen<\/a> always thinks he has taken on his “last job”.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Sir Ian McKellen is aware of his own mortality<\/p>\n

The 85-year-old actor has had an illustrious career on stage and on screen for six decades but as he takes on the role of Falstaff in a new London production of ‘Player Kings’, he admitted that realises his own mortality by looking at how many contacts he has left <\/p>\n

.He told The Saturday Times magazine: “If you want to know that you are mortal you just have to look at your address book. And so when a script comes through, or the hint of an offer, you think, \u2018This might be my last job. No. I\u2019m not doing that.’<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if Falstaff is my last job, I\u2019d better get it right, hadn\u2019t I?”<\/p>\n

The Shakespearean actor is known to film audiences for his role as Gandalf in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ series but even though the next installment, titled ‘The Hunt for Gollum’, is due for release in 2026, he admitted that he has not received any offer to star in it and wondered if he would even be alive by then.<\/p>\n

\nHe said: “There is no script, there is no offer, there is no. [But I’m interested], if I’m alive!”<\/p>\n

\nThe stage legend then pondered if there was any other job out there other than acting where people are “conscious” of their ongoing improvement, as he insisted that he is now “better” than ever at his craft. <\/p>\n

\nHe said: “I don\u2019t know if people in other jobs are conscious of getting better at what they do, but it\u2019s been a matter of pride to me that I\u2019m better at acting now than I was when I started.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

8 June 2024 Sir Ian McKellen always thinks he has taken on his “last job”. Sir Ian McKellen is aware of his own mortality The 85-year-old actor has had an illustrious career on stage and on screen for six decades but as he takes on the role of Falstaff in a new London production of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3699],"class_list":{"0":"post-103153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-sir-ian-mckellen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}