Latest Ian McKellen News

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville make ancient tragedy 'Oedipus' a political thriller

Oct. 18, 2024 08:23 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Who are you? That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote about the cursed king Oedipus two and a half millennia ago. Screen stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville return to the London stage in director...

Movie Review: In ‘The Critic,’ Ian McKellen's theater critic takes his job very seriously

Sep. 11, 2024 14:45 PM EDT

The arts rarely have anything good to say about critics. That they’re not generally the hero of many stories is, at the very least, understandable. More often they’re portrayed as joyless, cruel and a little pathetic; themselves failed artists who live to take down others, or, worse, sycophants...

Q&A: Ian McKellen is his own harshest critic as he discusses his stage fall and new thriller

Sep. 03, 2024 11:44 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Ian McKellen is listening to his inner critic. It’s beating him up for not finishing out his latest theater role after he fell off the stage during a June performance of “Player Kings” and spent three nights in the hospital. “Emotionally, I feel...