Well, then
Quickly, before getting on the train, two articles mainly about actors I like. The first one makes me sigh. Well, roll my eyes. Et tu, Damian Lewis? Then again, Ian McKellen's retort is amusing.
Sir Ian McKellen has hit back at Damian Lewis after the Homeland star said he did not want to end up a "fruity actor" known for playing wizards.
McKellen, who reprises his role as Gandalf in the Hobbit sequel The Desolation of Smaug, said "no one needs to feel sorry for me" after Lewis alluded to his career as one of the reasons why he wanted to break out of the theatre.
Lewis, in a Guardian interview in October, said he worried in his 20s that he would be "one of these slightly over-the-top, fruity actors who would have an illustrious career on stage, but wouldn't start getting any kind of film work until I was 50 and then start playing wizards".
McKellen was forthright in his response but, like Lewis, declined to name names. "I wouldn't like to have been one of those actors who hit stardom quite early on and expected it to continue and was stuck doing scripts that I didn't particularly like just to keep the income up," he told the Radio Times.
In other news, I was aware that there was a new film about the Beat Generation poets, featuring Daniel Radcliffe as a young Allen Ginsberg (the late A.G. probably would get a kick out of all the handsome actors playing him, because the most recent fore that was James Franco in Howl, and if you've seen photographs of Ginsberg, even when young...), but what I hadn't known was that Michael C. Hall was also in it. This is good news and makes me hope the film will be released on my side of the Atlantic as well. Because Dexter disappointed me so much post season 4, I haven't seen Michael C. Hall in something in ages, and he is a very good actor. The article makes the film sound intriguing, and has comments from Hall on David Fisher, too, who is still my favourite part of his.
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Sir Ian McKellen has hit back at Damian Lewis after the Homeland star said he did not want to end up a "fruity actor" known for playing wizards.
McKellen, who reprises his role as Gandalf in the Hobbit sequel The Desolation of Smaug, said "no one needs to feel sorry for me" after Lewis alluded to his career as one of the reasons why he wanted to break out of the theatre.
Lewis, in a Guardian interview in October, said he worried in his 20s that he would be "one of these slightly over-the-top, fruity actors who would have an illustrious career on stage, but wouldn't start getting any kind of film work until I was 50 and then start playing wizards".
McKellen was forthright in his response but, like Lewis, declined to name names. "I wouldn't like to have been one of those actors who hit stardom quite early on and expected it to continue and was stuck doing scripts that I didn't particularly like just to keep the income up," he told the Radio Times.
In other news, I was aware that there was a new film about the Beat Generation poets, featuring Daniel Radcliffe as a young Allen Ginsberg (the late A.G. probably would get a kick out of all the handsome actors playing him, because the most recent fore that was James Franco in Howl, and if you've seen photographs of Ginsberg, even when young...), but what I hadn't known was that Michael C. Hall was also in it. This is good news and makes me hope the film will be released on my side of the Atlantic as well. Because Dexter disappointed me so much post season 4, I haven't seen Michael C. Hall in something in ages, and he is a very good actor. The article makes the film sound intriguing, and has comments from Hall on David Fisher, too, who is still my favourite part of his.
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