McKellen: Playing the Part review " engaging portrait of a wizard Shakespearean actor
Joe Stephenson's documentary charts the theatrical knight's route from classical stage roles to starring in The Lord of the RingsIn an outtake over the credits, Ian McKellen jokes that this documentary about his life, career and LGBT activism is a bit of an obituary. As it happens he's already sorted out his funeral. "Well," he says, with a waggle of one of those owlish eyebrows, "I had an evening to spare … the mo…