# You Know Who I Love? Ian McKellan!

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/21 "2003-01-03T06:35:02Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Dragonblink \*  
> \*\*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. 😃 \*\*

Oh yeah. And, as a friend of mine points out, the men’s room bit is rather apt given how Richard treats people in general…

Brilliant movie. (And I _do_ like the play – this movie, along with a really cool modern-dress _Richard II_ I saw in Chicago a while ago, is the main thing that led me to soften my originally-purist stance on modernizing the histories.) The really amazing part is you can watch it and not give a second thought to the fact that this is the same man who played such a warm, humane Gandalf in Lord of the Rings – and then, when you watch LotR, you forget about his chilling Richard III…

And I wish to second **SwimmingRiddles** ’ recommendation of the _Macbeth_ video starring Judi Dench, which incidentally is now available legitimately. 😉 I don’t have enough superlatives.

Oh, and yeah, I have a terrible platonic crush on Sir Ian, too – it’s kinda hard to have the other kind, at least for me, when the object of said crush is _both_ not my orientation _and_ almost old enough to be my grandfather. One or the other of things, sure, but both… 😉 In any case, though, he rocks my world, verily.

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**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/22 "2003-01-03T13:15:07Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Hastur \*  
> \*\*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. \*\*

_Shrug_ I missed all that too. Didn’t know he was gay till well after X-men.

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**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-who-i-love-ian-mckellan/145991/23 "2003-01-03T13:59:34Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Lucki Chaarms \*  
> \*\*God, he’s just such a QUEEN!!!
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> Rock on, Ian. Did anyone see that SNL he hosted? It was the best ever. Definitely my favorite ep. IAN! IAN! IAN!
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> 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.
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> LC \*\*

I just caught that SNL ep again. When he plants the kiss on Jimmy Fallon I completely lose it. He’s got a wonderful sense of humor.  
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