Ian McKellen

There was a three night special programming on AMC called The Prisoner starring Ian McKellen earlier this week.  It was very confusing and if you didn't stick with it past the first installment then you probably wouldn't be able to make sense of it.  I stuck with it because I love that kind of confusing stuff and because I love Ian McKellen.

I had the privilege of seeing him on the live stage in London.  He played Gogo with Patrick Steward as Vlad and it was the singular best acting I have ever seen in my life.  If you read this blog you know that I am an avid TV watcher, I love movies, and you may know I like theater too.  Anyway, I have seen a lot of acting.  More of it than I would like to admit was terrible, most of it was so so, but every now and then there was a really incredible performance.  McKellen was better than all of those.

Aside from his incredible acting talent, I think he is just a cool guy.  If you want to know more, check out his performance in Extras which was effing hilarious (and I may have blogged about this before but it's good enough to blog about twice) or do some research on the work he does for gay rights. Basically I will support anything this guy does. Aaaannnd...scene.

McKellen 
Thespian.  Artist.
Acting, creating, inspiring.
Becoming invisible inside characters.
Chameleon