All this delivered sotto, in that convoluted voice, as distinctive as Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Alec Guinness, Alastair Sim or Bowie, company beyond compare. Alan would by turns be hilarious and indignant and gossipy and generous. He and Rima Horton (50 years together) were always top of my dream-list dinner guests. He put liberal philanthropy at the heart of his life. Whether to institutions like RADA or to individuals and certainly to me, his advice was always spot-on. Beyond a career which the world is indebted to, he was a constant agent for helping others. His last bequest of his film A Little Chaos and his indelible performance as Louis 14th, should now reach the wider audience they deserve. His career was at the highest level, as actor on stage and screen and as director ditto. In a statement released to Bustle, the Lord of the Rings actor said, There is so much that is matchless to remember about Alan Rickman. That said, Ian McKellen is honoring Alan Rickman with words that are beyond sentimental. When it comes to a man who's touched so many lives, especially those of his fellow actors, well, everyone wants to honor him for those reasons alone. Happily, there are no hard feelings between Ian McKellen and Michael Gambon (or Gandalf or Dumbledore for that matter), as McKellen said that he often mistakes Gambon for himself.The statements keep rolling in for Alan Rickman, who died Thursday at age 69 after a battle with cancer. Ultimately, Michael Gambon stepped in to take over the role of Dumbledore, adding his own flare to the role by giving Dumbledore a slight Irish accent. "I couldn't take over the part from an actor who I know disapproved of me."Īccording to McKellen, Harris had felt that - along with fellow Shakespearian actors Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Kenneth Branagh - he was “technically brilliant but passionless.” Ouch. "But when they called me up and said would I be interested in being in the Harry Potter films, they wouldn't say what part but I worked out what they were thinking," he continued. “When died – he played Dumbledore, the wizard – I played the real wizard of course,” he joked. Speaking to HARDTalk on BBC radio, McKellen explained that he turned down the role for the iconic wizard because the OG Dumbledore, Richard Harris, wasn’t actually a fan of his acting. Well, Ian McKellen has now spoken out about why he turned down the role of Dumbledore, and it’s actually for a super surprising reason.
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