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  • Well 3D is back and it sucks LOTR FTW!!!!!!

  • RON PAUL!!!!!

  • @jjj5541

    Professor X for president! XD

  • Magneto!

  • I watch the whole extended edition trilogy atleast once a year...

  • Cant wait for The Hobbit in 3D.. Imagine the clarity. And also Peter jackson said because of 3D they are able to improve the framrate of the movie to make it look even better than before..

  • Gandalf !!! :P

  • Great person and actor!

  • I saw them all in theaters..twice lol

  • Thumbs up for Sir Ian Mckellen's monkey face.

  • 1/4 of this interview is so gay.

    (see what I did there?)

  • Greatest Voice Ever!!!

  • i love the way he talks

  • "Maybe 3D is going to comeback in the cinema"

    Magneto/Gandalf - 1, Professor Xavier/Saruman - 0

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  • this is Gandalf :D

  • Wirst I was like ..oh it's interesting and then...oh man what a bullshit.

  • MAGNITOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

  • @wolvie041007 ....cerebro!

  • He is really a wizard.

  • Such a legend. I've been lucky enough to see him on stage twice and he was just superb.

  • MAGNEEEETO!!!!! :)

  • @g8tor03 comic fanboy? forever alone. GANDALF!!!!!! :)

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  • @JackMCFCShaw Suck my precious, ring boy

  • @MisterBlinkyTheGreat Why does it matter? Fool.

  • @MisterBlinkyTheGreat Why does that even matter.I mean,it doesn't make him a lesser person than anyone else.He's an awesome actor that's all that should matter.

  • @MisterBlinkyTheGreat Fool of a took! Throw yourself down a deep black pit instead of writing ignorant comments next time and rid us of your stupidity!

  • @MisterBlinkyTheGreat I'm gay. Lol you homophobes are all the same. I feel sorry for you.

  • lol 3d did come back to the cinema, just the 3d in cinema sucks, i seen captain eo down at disneyland and the 3d is still better for a old analog style show vsing a 3d digital show

  • how do you get the official title of "sir" in the UK?

  • @EtyleN You get knighted. There are a variety of honors to that effect, some make you a Sir, some don't. It's usually called Order of the British Empire, and if you are honored by it you get to be an Officer.

  • @EtyleN

    you have to be knighted by the queen or the prince of wales, usually being accepted into one of the great orders of state, like the order of the british empire or the order of the bath

  • Mckellen called the return of 3D

  • Who are the 14 morons?

  • Thats GANDALF THE WHITE =O

  • wow he was right about 3D lol

  • @MrBbminor Watch his performance as Iago in Othello, its said about 5 times in such a northern accent and it cracks me up every time! I can't hear him speak without hearing that line :)

  • How did Sir Ian McKellen know that 3D would come back! OMG! X

  • @chelseasmile17 - well, he IS a wizard, after all..

  • Michael Parkinson, An institution...but so so overrated. Eclipsed by his guests. He's going to date so rapidly.

  • @novadrian He's supposed let himself be eclipsed by his guests. That's what a good interviewer does : let the guests shine while he fades into the background.

  • PUT MONEY IN THY PURSE!

  • He came to our school to give a speech on gay rights, half way through he asked if anyone has exams coming up, and the drama group had it the next day, so he shouted "...YOU SHALL PASS" to the audience :P was awesome.

  • @ryanvids1 obviously not true

  • @Karlos1760 Wanna bet? Google "Ian Mckellen school visits" He went on a nationwide visit of schools sponsored by Stonewall.

  • 0:42 --> he is a wizard... he predicted the future!!!

  • i preferred him as Richard III

  • It's funny at about 50 odd seconds into he says about lotr coming back to theaters and now we're going to be showing all 3 extended at my job hehe. Unfortunately it' not going to be in 3D

  • I still watch the LOTR extended trilogy now, I'll show it to my kids, and hope they enjoy it as much as I do. The best movie trilogy ever made.

  • @OZORxORON Absolutely. Hands down.

    

  • @OZORxORON

    Noooo. Not even quite.

  • @Nickodemusodurn Funny thing called opinion, read up about it.

  • @OZORxORON

    Yes exactly. You stated yours, and I mine, correct? I never suggested you should dislike it. Its good but I just found a lot of it kinda.. boring. And I usually like long epics where not much happens. Im not an action junkie or anything. Bleh I dunno. Cheers.

  • @Nickodemusodurn Fair enough.

  • i like how he called the return of 3d

  • @fgallucci123456 A kind that is unfortunately dying out now. :( Luckily Sir Ian is still quite active and able. Malcolm McDowell as well.

  • look at that- he called the 3d thing coming back. but it pretty much sucks and lotr still kicks the shit out of most everything out there.

  • "This week head gone down to Bristol where the gorilla had had a babay"...cuts to Peter Kay...

  • @misterpandattack That's not peter kay...

  • Gandalf

  • he predicts the return of 3d

  • @MrBlaZeAdOoBiE indeed. But i remember Bewoulf that year hinting the return of 3D.

  • @MrBlaZeAdOoBiE

    of course he did hes a wizard!!

  • @MrBlaZeAdOoBiE Yeah, too bad he war right... :/

  • The fuck... did .. i just watch british porno?... 2:36

  • sir ian is just the most delightful person

  • sir ian is just the most delightful person

  • Oh dear God, the man predicted Avatar! "3D will come back to the cinema" o.O

  • McKellen ws spot on about the 3D, its a shame because more emphasis is now put on visuals

  • He predicted the return of 3d!

  • magneto l0l

  • I will agree with him about London, that's all I hear whenever I go there.

  • That was such a good monkey! Holy shit hahaha

  • The 3D anecdote is as close to a vision of the future as you will ever find...

  • It's always been one of my biggest regret that I never saw TLOTD trilogy in the cinema :( i've now seen the trilogy 6 times on bluray and 13 times extended edtion I've never seen a normal non-extended edtion verion

  • @noahjell I saw it when I was a kid... I didn't sleep for days.

  • oh his voice...

  • ahh suckers

    he still got traces of his northern accent

  • Everytime I forget that the show is called "Parkinson". I'm always shocked cos I think "OMG, Ian McKellen got Parkinsons?!?!?" Freaks me out each time.

  • Everytime I forget that the show is called "Parkinson". I'm always shocked cos I think "OMG, Ian McKellen got Parkinsons?!?!?"

  • @diavarezable same here:D

  • i just realized that magneto and gandalf are the SAME PEOPLE. Wizard mutants, where have you been all my life? and why haven't you reproduced with ninjas?!??

  • I FUCKING LOVE SIR IAN!

  • Enter Magneto.

  • Do not worry sir Ian McKellen. Yes, 3D is the "thing" nowadays. But The Lord of the Rings franchise will never be forgotten, always rememberd as the legendary movies. You will NEVER be forgotten. Plus, you're returning to Middle earth in the Hobbit now, ;)

  • To everyone who has commented about how they do not approve of Ian Mckellen's homosexuality:

    Yes. He is homosexual. But he was acting out a scene, and you are simply tagging him as perverted when you have porn in your next Internet Explorer tab.

    And altogether, he is much more pleasant and entertaining than all youtube trolls combined. Just don't aggravate him: Ian can turn trolls to stone.

  • @CMSSL4D2TF2LoL

    Well said.

  • I think I've gone nuts cuz I am completely obsessed with Ian and I love his voice!!!!!!! And I'm only 12

  • ahahhaha u just wouldn't expect an old and profesional actor like him to muck about, love it XDDD

  • Ian, you gay man, you just wanted to sit on his lap. :P

  • Sir Ian Mckellen would've been awesome as dumbledore. *sigh*

  • @ltsmx Indeed. It's too bad that both movies had to be made and at the same time. Unfortunately, he never would have been able to do it without everyone going "That's Dumbledore/Gangalf!".  The personalities of both characters are too much alike.

  • @Richcelt hmmm. i wouldn't mind him being 2 characters of the same personality. If he were though, dumbledore dying would be even more heart-breaking tho </3

  • @ltsmx Think of it. Dubledor has to wave his wand and say words... Gandalf just touches the ground and the whole place explodes!

  • @ltsmx It would be too similar to his role as Gandalf that people would confuse the two. I like him as Gandalf better.

  • @ltsmx

    MUCH better than the current guy that have doing it after the original actor died.

  • @ltsmx Yea i agree :)

  • @ltsmx harry potter reboot ?

  • @ChannelVortex the first dumbledore was the best :C pity he died though

  • @ltsmx he's gay too, so he'd fit the character pretty well

  • @ltsmx So would Christopher Plummer have.

  • @ltsmx richard harris was a great dumbledore

  • They're making Lord of the Rings in 3d anyway, so it won't look aged against other films.

  • He has a very pleasant voice.

  • Ian is a riot.

  • there is 3d now but lord of the rings is still my favourite movie of all time .

  • u can say bad things about this amazing person but the fact is this:HE has the title sir u have the title douchbag

  • Ian is on my list of actors I'll mourn when he dies.

  • i think i like him more as gandalf

  • dont worry ian. 3d movies suck

  • He's right about one thing, LoTR was AMAZING in theaters.

  • he is awesome in extras if anyone here has seen it XD

  • There's something almost Dalai Lama-like about him, he has the wisdom of the old man yet he has the energy and creativity of a child

  • @GozdeIsRetarded WHHAT Ian was at your school?!?!? why was he there?

  • You shall not pass! 

  • Few people know this, but Sir Ian McKellen actually dropped out of school after being discouraged by his maths teacher. Apparently just before the exam his teacher said to him with crushing conviction : "You shall not pass!"

  • @TAFMOT3K lol.

  • @TAFMOT3K LOL

  • @TAFMOT3K Lol! didn't know that xD nice to know

  • @Leafshinoby I have to confess, my comment has absolutely no basis in fact: I just made it up :)

  • @TAFMOT3K Lol wut? :)

  • @TAFMOT3K hahahahahahahah!!!! that was good.

  • @TAFMOT3K Yea....people should also know that he is gay!

  • @TAFMOT3K Yea....people should also know that he is gay!

  • @trash1121 Does it matter?

  • @trash1121 what does that have to do with anything?

  • @trash1121 And your point?

  • @TAFMOT3K thats hilarious!

  • @TAFMOT3K Interesting, the number of likes for this comment. Whether this is true or not, he somehow ended up in St. Catherine's College University of Cambridge. Do they accept school drop outs? I wonder.

  • @Veneratio10 I agree, it is interesting :) But just to repeat what I said earlier, this is not true (as far as I know). It is in fact what some people call 'a joke'.

  • @TAFMOT3K lol, epic.

  • I shook sir Ian McKellen`s hand today whan he came to my school tbh it was the best day of my life

  • @NSxReLoADz

    was it part of an anti-homophobic week or something? i heard about him going to a school for something like that

  • I wonder if he feels as trapped by Gandalf as Nimoy felt trapped by Spock or Henry Winkler by the Fonz...

  • @Falcrist I doubt that, he already have had a long and distinguished career before LoTR, unlike Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock at a relatively early age, and have been tied to that character for decades.

    But IMHO, you do have a valid point, typecasting is a real danger to actors, and probably more so these days, with the media culture we live in being so pervasive as it is.

  • @Falcrist He played so many  different characters, I doubt that. But I agree on Nimoy and Winkler...

  • On of the best actors ever!

  • Wow, I got the 666th "like" on this video. ///_o

    And there are 13 dislikes... what is this?!

    666... 13...

  • @xorterenshe lol :P creepy much? :P

  • thats something i thought i would never see.. sir mckellen imitating a gorilla.. what a lovely person.. ^^

  • I don't often use this word to describe men, but Sir Ian's just lovely! Makes me wish mankind would finally discover the secret to long life: that way we wouldn't lose such great people AND we'd be able to enjoy watching them forever and ever!

  • 13 people are fans of Saruman

  • Ian McKellen is the greatest person on earth

  • He brought Gandalf to life (one could say Magneto as well ;p) - amazing individual. Shakespeare himself could not have found a better actor for Tolkien's leading figure.

  • He actually is a wizard you guys.

  • Ian Mckellen he came to our school today

    and talked to us about being homophobic

    his a good man and was very nice :)

  • @ImaBigCullenist - He came to see a play I was in last night, and was so gracious and such a lovely man. :)

  • @David8693 i noe i reali like this man his really funni

    n he performed for us a shakespeare scene it was soo good

  • @David8693 yep hes awesome! :) saw him on the bus today! just me and him top deck of the bus lol

  • @MrJasonSmarts You should've whispered him "you shallllllll nootttttt passs" haha

  • well the LOTR films are in 3D so no worries

  • Gay, Straight or Bi. I could care less. Sir Ian McKellen will always be Gandalf the White in my eyes. Such an intelligent man.

  • Well, Ian Mckellen called it. 3D is back.

  • can i jus say, did anybody else think avatar was just the disney film 'pokahontus', in space? Pokahontus-guy comes over from England colonising, infultrates tribe, likes tribe, falls in love with the chiefs daughter, decides to fight the english people die, the end. Avatar-"guy does same thing only on pandora"-in 3D!!!!!

  • @TheMattTrivium shut the fuck up please

  • "Epic in every sense"

    He is quoting The Sunday Times on The Wheel of Time

    Thumbs up if you noticed this!

  • "maybe 3D is going to come back into fashion"

    one question: whats this weeks lotto numbers?

  • I got to meet this man in a small Hollywood Box Theater for my college "Go To Theater" class as a fun Shakespear study.

  • Ian you look great although your accent now sounds like the north (Leeds). I thought you were sexy in gds and mosters with that oxfrodshire accent.

  • @michaels7 Ah yes, Gods and Monsters. Not only a good film but, a quick study on WWI.

  • I love real actors

  • Sir Ian rocks. !

  • @Alorrana yes he does. If you haven't seen him in "Loving Walter" try & get it. He brought tears to my eyes.

  • I definitely agree with you.

  • "Maybe 3D is going to come back into fashion" WOW On top of everything else a psychic!

  • that voice... its just inspiring

  • 1:36 <3  .... =P

  • He's a great actor- especially in LOTR

  • That ape impression was AWESOME! Haha !

  • I would not mess with this man if I were you,,

    Remember

    Hes got Gandalf's and Magneto's powers as one!!!!

  • YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

  • woah....he is a wizard...he predicted the second coming of 3D!

  • I dont like to see people ive seen from movies i really love :( but i cant stop myself from searching..

  • i heard the stopt the Hobbit for now because the have financial problems :-( i sure hope the soon wil have the movie done but i fear it wil not be realsded for anouther 3 or 4 years

  • hum... and Dumbledore is gay.

  • MAGNETO!!!