![]() McKellen made a good impression in a supporting role in 1993’s Six Degrees of Separation, based on John Guare’s stage play. McKellen in 1995 adapted the stage production himself for the screen, in a film directed by Richard Loncraine. McKellen also inhabited the title role of Richard III for director Richard Eyre for the Royal National Theatre, an innovative production that updated the period and setting of the play to 1930s Europe. Without doubt, Lear is the one I got most nervous about.” I mean, the great actors of my lifetime, … to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that’s challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics. ![]() “ King Lear, I’ve been seeing all my life. The actor worked frequently with Shakespeare director Trevor Nunn, notably in a 1976 production (alongside Judi Dench) of Macbeth, in 1989 for Othello and in 2007 for a world-traveling production of King Lear. McKellen also played the lead in Marlowe’s Edward II in Edinburgh in 1969, in which he enacted the gay monarch’s “male affections” and brutal death scene, spurring outrage among local politicians. “The ineffable presence of God himself enters into Mr McKellen’s Richard.” in 1968, about which The Sunday Times’ critic, Harold Hobson, wrote: ![]() McKellen’s first important role was the lead in Richard II for the Prospect Theatre Co. ![]()
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