Performing for the play “Player Kings” in London, the 85-year-old actor suffered a heavy fall on stage on Monday evening.
The interpreter of Gandalf in “The Lord of the Rings” had to be taken to hospital.
Doctors assured him that he would “make a full and speedy recovery.”
He gave the spectators quite a scare. Ian McKellen suffered a heavy fall on stage in London this Monday evening, June 17. While playing the character John Falstaff in the middle of a battle scene in the play “Player Kings”, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV”, the British actor lost his footing and fell from the stage, as reported witnesses reported to British media.
Screams of pain
They heard the actor scream in pain, before being taken care of by staff at the Noël Coward Theater and then by an ambulance. The performance was subsequently canceled. A theater spokesperson said Ian McKellen had a “good morale” and that the doctors who examined him assured that he “would make a full and rapid recovery”as reported by AFP.
This Tuesday’s performance was also canceled, but the actor should return to the stage on Wednesday.
A Shakespeare specialist, whose characters he has played numerous times in the theater, Ian McKellen became a world star in the 2000s by playing Magneto, the mutant capable of manipulating metal in X-Menthen the long-bearded magician Gandalf, in the trilogy of Lord of the Rings. He is also known for his commitment to defending LGBT+ people in the United Kingdom.
