TOM HANKS: SIR IAN MCKELLEN IS A PLAYHOUSE FOR DA VINCI CODE

Sir Ian McKellen plays another sir in The Da Vinci Code, Sir Leigh Teabing. Tom Hanks says acting opposite McKellan is like being in a gigantic playhouse. "I don't think anybody has more fun acting than Sir Ian McKellan. Our first scene on film was very representative of every day we had in meetings and in rehearsals. There was just this constant delightful probing that went on. He'll say a line, we were at the table and he'd go through a patch of dialogue and he'd say something like, 'well my brain just turned around in on itself there. What was he saying?' He's always looking at it like scanning out, not just the dialogue but the sensibilities behind it. From my experience when he gets...

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[fuhrerschein2008]

Sir Ian McKellen and Tom Hanks - two extraordinary actors

[annjar69]

They're good actors both :)

[TheSeanpatrickobrien]

lol tom hanks loves being delightfully probed!

[MrMasoodrodman1]

@fuhrerschein2008 extraordinary is an understatement

[aerdna14]

@Nick22pr I really, really love history actually. Lots of people think it's dull and boring, but I think it's rather fascinating, actually. Not to mention that it gives me chills to realize that in some places I can literally walk where Napoleon or Elizabeth I or Paul Revere walked, or that I can visit the graves of Isaac Newton or Leonardo DaVinci or Alexander Pope and know that the actual remains of the great scientists and artists and philosophers of old lie beneath my feet. It's wonderful.

[aerdna14]

@Nick22pr My family has a coat of arms too! And our own tartan. And yeah, practically all of the settlers in North America were English, most Caucasian people probably have predominantly English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh roots. I definitely would not be surprised to find out that I'm randomly related to people around North America and Britain by some common ancestors. And my paternal grandmother was Queen Elizabeth II's fifth cousin or something haha. Everybody's related somehow!

[Nick22pr]

@aerdna14 lol the whole system is very complicated. I know i study a bit more about it than i think the average American does, but thats also partially because I'm of Scottish descent, and my family is really really old. I always kind of took pride in that. We have a coat of arms and all the usuals of your ancient families, which i need to look at more because the ancient families all pretty much connect, and they all pretty much have shoot-offs and connections with royal blood.

[aerdna14]

@Nick22pr I find the knighting system rather confusing actually. A lot of countries like Canada and New Zealand have their own things (like the Order of Canada, Order of New Zealand etc.) but I think you can still be knighted? And then there are levels of knighthood, like only the highest ones give you the title of Sir or Dame. It's confusing.

[Nick22pr]

@aerdna14 i dont really know though. interesting question. im gonna have to study that in more detail.

[Nick22pr]

@aerdna14 we can if were dual citizens. there also might be the ability to do so in special cases like if there is a direct lineage that can be legitimately traced as British.

[aerdna14]

@MagicalWham Can Americans even be knighted? I didn't think they could, since they're not a member of the Commonwealth.