"What's wrong with American actors? They are not British!" | The Dick Cavett Show

Ian McKellen talks about acting - it's about choosing parts of yourself to show the audience.
Date aired - 6/8/1992 - Ian McKellen
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@HavanaOutpost]

These long form articulate conversations are a lost art.

[@donquixoteupinhere]

No they aren’t haha

[@ZiplineFinals]

Podcasts? All-in? JRE? Lex Fridman?

[@redbarchetta8782]

7 years on from this interview Ian goes on to play Gandalf. Brilliant!

[@MrCarpen7er]

A minor part on a great career. But you don´t know more. Typical...

[@SB57-wq1xs]

And then Magneto in X-Men

[@pauricdevro]

" If we were to draw a graph of my process, of my method, it would be something like this: Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian, action, wizard "You shall not pass!", cut. Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian." - Ian McKellen

[@Will-nn6ux]

"How do I act so well? What I do is I... pretend... to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play."

[@andrewdavidbarratt]

“You needn’t call it me now… Ian. Mr. McKellan.” Even though he is a Sir. Brilliant.

[@mojeimja]

Oh what a magnetic personality this Ian guy has.

[@julienperonne2347]

magnetic, huh ? See what you did there x)

[@gerardmackay8909]

The first ‘grown up’ play I ever saw was as a 14 year old in Newcastle in 1977 and Ian McKellen was playing Romeo (he was 37 and too old for the part but God he was brilliant) The whole occasion was electric (Francesca Annis was Juliet and utterly beautiful)

[@michaelwilson2340]

Could you imagine Jimmy Fallon trying to pull this off?

[@immortaltyger1569]

Not in a million years.

[@jairosantanafigueroa4139]

No, I cannot!

[@andrewdavidbarratt]

This form of interview can still be found. Radio 4 in the UK, PBS and NPR in the USA. But mainly, podcasts have taken this over. Podcasts honestly have been the best thing to emerge in media and I am so glad. Long form interviews, radio dramas, comedy, documentaries.

[@pauldockree9915]

I think Ian introduced me to Dickens on Television. David Copperfield TV Series 1966 25m Yes. I was working already. Part time

[@Recontramojado]

His version of Richard III is fantastic

[@nicolasvidal92]

6:10 it's an absolutely clever bit!

[@tylerlately]

1:28 LOOLL

[@aaropajari7058]

Very deceptive click bait title.

[@Lytton333]

So why doesn't he play Gandalph dressed in jogging gear or slacks and a polo shirt then? That argument about modern dress is very weak. The Victorians the Edwardians, the Georgians the Jacobeans.. all played in historical dress. Watching Romeo and Juliet, supposed to be set in 14thC Verona, but actually set in a modern pub or a disco or on roller skates is just as bad as the Victorian directorial conceits he sniffily dismissed. It's just that the lefties like him who control the arts dismiss the past and it's decorative splendour because it's not 'modern'.

[@OlipherSG]

"You have to have, on the whole, spent most of your life earning money at all at the best of the nation. Not galavanting off to holiday making loads of money and becoming very famous" - Magneto, 1992.

[@OlipherSG]

/Gandalf ;p

[@teresacastle4789]

...at the behest of the nation. Not gallavanting off to Hollywood...

[@cshubs]

We had a war to get rid of titles! 🙂

[@TheStockwell]

And in the United States we don't have them. In Europe, they do. Damn those filthy swine! Should we send the US military to Europe and save them? Wars fix everything, you know. That's why there's so much peace and stability around the world - because of wars. 😐

[@TheStockwell]

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[@aaropajari7058]

Symbol removed. Reality of an aristocracy remained the same.