# You Know Who I Love? Ian McKellan! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991 "2003-01-01T04:19:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/1 "2003-01-01T04:19:29Z")
God, he’s just such a QUEEN!!! Rock on, Ian. Did anyone see that SNL he hosted? It was the best ever. Definitely my favorite ep. IAN! IAN! IAN! Plus, he’s a really good actor! He’s got both! And action figures! Action figures and a boyfriend? He’s a god. No question. Happy New Year, Ian McKellan. LC ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/2 "2003-01-01T04:44:45Z")
That’s SIR Ian McKell **e** n to YOU! ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/3 "2003-01-01T04:53:53Z")
I’ll kneel for him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/4 "2003-01-01T05:35:26Z")
And he’s going to be Dumbledore! How about that! ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/5 "2003-01-01T05:46:03Z")
[Oops, spoke too soon.](http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#2) But he’s still a top actor, and I dips me lid. ---
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/6 "2003-01-01T05:54:50Z")
Ian McKellan has a boyfriend? As in, Ian McKellan is gay? Did I misread that? I do have a lot of wine in my system right now… Well, if he is, that’s super awesome, though I really never thought about it before and don’t think it’s exactly essential information, either. But yes, a top actor indeed, and I’ll doff my own hat to him, or would if I had one. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/7 "2003-01-01T06:22:32Z")
Yep, Ian McKellen’s gay. Yes, he’s super awesome. I’ll stop with the me too posting now. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/8 "2003-01-01T06:24:43Z")
Yes, he has a boyfriend. A _younger_ boyfriend, if that’s who he was at the Oscars with that had his hand on his knee and he is damned hot, too. Way to go, Sir Ian! But he is [not](http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,11044,00.html?eol.tkr) going to be Dumbledore. ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/9 "2003-01-01T14:53:35Z")
McKell **e** n. My bad. He still rocks. His SNL is still the highlight of the series. He is rather groovy indeed. And to **Grelby** , Sir Ian is very, very, very, gay. I believe those were the Queen’s words when she knighted him :-)… LC ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/10 "2003-01-01T14:54:43Z")
damn smileys. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/11 "2003-01-01T16:25:34Z")
Sir Ian rocks! Anybody see him in Gods and Monsters, with Brenda Fraser? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/12 "2003-01-01T22:36:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Grelby \* > \*\*Ian McKellan has a boyfriend? As in, Ian McKellan is gay? Did I misread that? I do have a lot of wine in my system right now… > > Well, if he is, that’s super awesome, though I really never thought about it before and don’t think it’s exactly essential information, either. But yes, a top actor indeed, and I’ll doff my own hat to him, or would if I had one. \*\* Someone didn’t know Ian is gay after the hoopla in the newspapers after he went high profile and people were bitchin g and moaning on the net whether a gay man could play Magneto in the X-Men? Wow. ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/13 "2003-01-01T22:46:09Z")
So the man of my dreams is gay and thirty some years older than I, and both of us are in relationships with other men. We can work _through_ these tiny details, Ian! ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/14 "2003-01-02T22:35:03Z")
Oh, I coudln’t get over the hottie he took to the Oscars! Ian is so fabulous, and knew the cameras would be on him. Good show! So to speak. If I was a man, I would do him. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/15 "2003-01-03T01:36:27Z")
Envy me. Got to see him Live! on! Stage! starring with Helen Mirren in DANCE OF DEATH, an adaptation of a Strindberg play. He thundered in anger, squealed with laughter, dropped bon mots like bread crumbs all over the stage, and did a jig that would have done credit to a man half his age. It was last winter at the Broadhurst in NY. [Dance of Death from Sir Ian’s webpage.](http://www.mckellen.com/stage/dance/index.htm) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/16 "2003-01-03T02:28:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Archergal \* > \*\*Sir Ian rocks! Anybody see him in Gods and Monsters, with Brenda Fraser? \*\* That is my favorite BF movie (hey, he’s cute, leave me a lone!) and Ian and Brendan work really well together, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/17 "2003-01-03T02:49:15Z")
He’s also one helluva nice guy, according to the local press: > [@](#): > > McKellen also took time out of his busy schedule here to speak to film buffs with Bessai at a CineVic event; personally returned tickets with thanks to the Kaleidoscope Theatre when he couldn’t attend a production of The Hobbit; and invited kids from the neighbourhood in for a meet-and-greet when he was shooting at a home on Wellington Street. > > The cast and crew of Emile also gave McKellen a big thumbs-up. > > At a wrap party sponsored by the film commission and the Canoe Club Monday night, Bessai described his leading man as “a soulful dude.” > > The film’s producer Jacqueline Renner then jokingly corrected Bessai: “That’s Sir Soulful Dude.” > > While singer-accordionist Marion Siegel and her Yiddish Columbia State Orchestra enlivened the party, a clearly exhausted but good-natured McKellen chatted with colleagues and guests, signed autographs, danced and bid a fond farewell to newfound friends (Victoria Times-Colonist, December 20th edition) McKellen was in Victoria again to shoot Carl Bessai’s upcoming “Emile.” ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/18 "2003-01-03T04:00:56Z")
I realised with a bit of horror that I have a crush on Sir Ian, too. Great. As if my taste in real life men isn’t bad enough, now I have a crush on a gay man old enough to be my grandpa. But I have adored him forever. I was one of those nerdy drama geeks, and I had a bootleg copy of the Royal Shakespeare Co.'s production of MacBeth with Sir Ian and Dame Judi Dench. I used to loan it to my English teachers. Oy. And I HIGHLY recommend the Richard Loncrainne version of_Richard III_. I’ve never liked that play, until I saw Ian as Richard. And the last scene ROCKS. And another thumbs up on _Gods and Monsters_. I sort of imagine Ian as a WAY toned down version of that character. I read somewhere that while they were all in New Zealand, the actors who played the members of the Fellowship of the Rings all got the elfin number 9 (for nine members) tattoos. INCLUDING Ian. How cool is that? It’s one thing for the youngin’s to get tats, but so rockstar cool for Ian to do the same. OK, now I’m embarrassing myself. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/19 "2003-01-03T04:44:44Z")
Of course, some of the younger men got their tattoos in the, er, groin area, while Sir Ian has said that his is on his shoulder. Dammit! Wasn’t he also in _Apt Pupil_ with Brad Renfro? It was an evil, evil SK story that I never thought would get made, but I still haven’t seen it yet! I watch a lot of children’s movies, though! ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/20 "2003-01-03T05:07:01Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > \*\*And I HIGHLY recommend the Richard Loncrainne version of_Richard III\*. I’ve never liked that play, until I saw Ian as Richard. And the last scene ROCKS. \*\* The last scene? Hell, the opening speech alone is reason to watch the movie. Any man who can start the “Winter of our discontent” speech at a banquet and end it in the men’s room is bloody awesome in my book. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991.md?page=2)