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‘LOTR’ Actor Ian McKellen Tells Young Actors They Should “Come Out, Being In The Closet Is Silly”
The 'Lord of the Rings' actor urged young actors to ignore their advisors and come out.
Screen and stage veteran Sir Ian McKellen urges young gay actors to come out, liking their situation to star footballers in the UK premier league. I would imagine young footballers are probably, like actors, getting very bad advice from agents who are worried about their own incomes. McKellen himself came out in 1988 aged 48, the year after he had played a gay monarch in Christopher Marlowe’s play Edward II, a theatre production that was transferred to TV, where its viewers saw their first small screen same-sex kiss, between lovers Edward II and Piers Gaveston.
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