London, Sep 2 (EFE).- English actor Ian McKellen will take the rest of the year off after suffering a fall on stage during a performance at the Noel Coward Theatre in London last June.
The 85-year-old actor, best known for his role in the Lord of the Rings series, told the Big Issue that he felt “weak” after falling while playing John Falstaff in a production of Player Kings, a modern-day version of English playwright William Shakespeare’s Henry IV.
“We all stumble in life, but when you get to my age you can’t always get back up,” McKellen said, suggesting he was concerned the fall, which left him with a fractured wrist, may have been a result of his aging.
“I’m just trying to convince myself that it was an accident. I’m usually working or getting ready for work, I’ve been doing a little bit of that, wondering what the best plan could be. I’m going to take the rest of the year off. Not because I need to, just because I want to,” he said.
McKellen’s career spans more than six decades, but he is best known for his performances in the films based on JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’, as well as various characters in Shakespeare’s plays, such as MacBeth, Coriolanus and King Lear. EFE
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