Ian’s face in the third panel…

Watch: The power and vulnerability in his voice needs to be heard.

_{“When he played Rasputin, I was the Tzar Nicholas. Filming had started before I arrived in St Petersburg. Precisely as I walked into the hotel-room, the phone rang.  Alan,  to say welcome, hope the flight was tolerable and would I like to join him and Greta Scacchi and others in the restaurant in 30 minutes? Alan, the  concerned leading man. On that film,  he discovered that the local Russian crew was getting an even worse lunch than the rest of us. So he successfully protested. On my first day before the camera, he didn’t like the patronising, bullying tone of a note which the director gave me. Alan, seeing I was a little crestfallen, delivered a quiet, concise resumé of my career and loudly demanded that  the director up his game.” — Ian McKellen on Alan Rickman [x]}

“Do you ever get over having to come out?” (x)

“Of course, the importance of coming out is personal. The importance of coming out is that you’re out yourself and your life is changed, I think, for the better. That affects those who love you – your friends, your family, people you work with. I would never say to a celebrity, ‘Come out for the good of society.’ You must come out for the good of yourself. The rest will follow. Nor does it mean that if you do come out, you have to immediately start talking about gay issues as if you were an expert.”

get to know me meme: [2/10] actors/actresses: Sir Ian Mckellen

I’m cheaper than Anthony Hopkins.