"I said to myself as I slid off the stage ... 'this is the end', these were the words in my mind," the 85-year-old actor said in an interview.
"I said to myself as I slid off the stage ... 'this is the end', these were the words in my mind," the 85-year-old actor said in an interview.
McKellen, 85, was starring in Player Kings, combining William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts One And Two, in the capital's West End theatre district, when he tripped during a fight scene. "I am absolutely physically recovered," McKellen told BBC Radio."It is emotionally that I've got some residue that I've got to deal with. I said to myself as I slid off the stage ... 'this is the end', these were the words in my mind."
McKellen broke his wrist and chipped a vertebrae in the fall but said he was saved from more serious injury by the padding of the suit he was wearing to play the overweight character John Falstaff.
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