News for Dec. 09, 2003
Acclaimed British actor
Ian McKellen said Monday Shakespeare acting helped him to play the wizard
Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. "Having played Shakespeare where you're often required to be intensely naturalistic and the next minute rhetorical, speaking blank verse and rallying the troops maybe, that's quite a good preparation for playing
Gandalf," McKellen told journalists. [
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