Ian McKellen On Returning As Hamlet: "I Hadn't Much Enjoyed Doing It Before"
Veteran star Ian McKellen has credited online pilates sessions for keeping him active during the Covid-19 lockdown.
“On and off I’ve been aware that exercise is a good idea and I’ve done various disciplines. I’ve been doing Pilates online through the lockdown. It just keeps me active,” McKellen said, reports aceshowbiz.com.
Ian McKellen added: “The trouble with a lot of people my age is that they are decrepit, not simply because they are getting older but because they are not doing enough of what they always did do — walk, run exercise. It’s all too easy to think, ‘Well, I’ll have a little sleep now. It’s 11 o’clock in the morning’.”
Now that people are beginning to come out of lockdown, he finds himself taking on new forms of ‘exercise’ as he prepares for his “athletic” role of Hamlet onstage.
“Hamlet is… a fencer and rather good at it, so I am doing a few lunges,” Ian McKellen said.
The veteran actor is returning to the famous role after an original outing in 1971.
