Comments | selenak: Drive-by links

selenak

Drive-by links

Mar 29, 2010 22:23

Do you want to know in which context Ian McKellen said "After six months with Patrick in the dressing room I really thought I could live with him" and Patrick Stewart taught Roger Rees the correct pronounciation of "Magneto"? Of course you do. Also, I'm always envious of people who can do mixtapes/famixes/whatever you want to call them for ( Read more... )

patrick stewart, alias, ian mckellen, battlestar galactica

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honorh March 30 2010, 01:17:54 UTC

Aww, they're cute! Couple of chaps I'd like to sit down to tea with and let them dominate the conversation with anecdotes about movies, TV and theater. Meanwhile, I'll melt into ooze just listening to their voices.

selenak March 30 2010, 03:58:34 UTC

I think I would be too intimidated by fannish awe to have tea with them, but I'd love to be there if ever they do a convention appearance together, and/or a Shakespeare workshop appearance at Stratford....

shezan March 30 2010, 20:00:02 UTC

Do you want to know in which context Ian McKellen said "After six months with Patrick in the dressing room I really thought I could live with him" and Patrick Stewart taught Roger Rees the correct pronounciation of "Magneto"? Of course you do.

AAAARRGGGGHHHH! Missed this! Is it YouTubable?

(And IanMcK & Patrick Stewart were together in Trevor Nunn's Macbeth, 30 years ago. WHICH I SAW. With Judi Dench as Lady M. and Emperor Palpatine Ian McDiarmid as the Porter.

selenak March 30 2010, 20:28:35 UTC

I have no idea whether it is, haven't looked on YouTube for it yet.

And I so envy you for seeing that production live. I saw the tv version, but it is Stewart-less. However, it did ensure Ian McK & Judi Dench became my favourite M & Lady M ever. So often one of the roles is played by a weaker actor than the other, but this was truly a power couple. Also I dug the virgin/other/crone concept for the witches.

shezan March 30 2010, 20:56:35 UTC

I queued four hours to get good seats at The Warehouse, then the RSC's smaller experimental house in a Covent Garden side street, because they weren't numbered. I ended up in the middle of the first row, and the actors were so close, on the same level, that fake blood got onto the clothes of the friend who'd brought me. McDiarmid ambled all around doing his soliloquy, looked at me, winked, said audibly "Later!", and went on, without ever losing his dramatic momentum. It was something.