{"id":179436,"date":"2024-01-31T10:43:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/?p=179436"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:43:58","slug":"ian-mckellen-not-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/actors-on-acting\/ian-mckellen-not-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen Has No Plans to Retire: “I really feel I\u2019m quite good at this acting thing now”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tony Award-winning acting legend Ian McKellen<\/strong><\/a> has wowed audiences on screens and on stage even long before he became a pop culture sensation as Magneto in the X-Men<\/em> films and Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings<\/em> films. And more than 20 years after he appeared in the first installments of those beloved franchises, McKellen continues to act, such as The Critic<\/em>, a 2023 film in which he portrays a hard-to-please theater critic. Speaking about the film to Variety<\/em><\/a>, McKellen also opened up about his approach to acting, including noting the worst experience he ever had making a film, as well as his thoughts on never retiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite often being thought of as a classically-trained actor because of his Shakespearean and stage work, McKellen did not attend acting school. He remarks, \u201cI\u2019ve never learned Meisner or any technique of acting. I didn\u2019t go to drama school. I\u2019ve often wished that I did have a foolproof approach to how to prepare. Each play or movie stands by itself for me. And every time I begin with this terror of just \u2018Here we go again, making the same mistakes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve never learned Meisner or any technique of acting. I didn\u2019t go to drama school. I\u2019ve often wished that I did have a foolproof approach to how to prepare. Each play or movie stands by itself for me. And every time I begin with this terror of just \u2018Here we go again, making the same mistakes.\u2019\u201d<\/div>