The 85-year-old actor lost his footing whilst performing in Player Kings in June at the Noel Coward Theatre, breaking his wrist and chipping a vertebrae.
Sir Ian McKellen has said he will continue to work "as long as the legs and the lungs and the mind keep working" after he fell from the stage earlier this year.
The two-time Oscar nominee revealed he does forget names but he feels that is also because he has more to remember than people who are younger than him. Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he added that he was "absolutely physically recovered" but there is some emotional "residue" that he has to deal with.
Despite his break, Sir Ian attended the European premiere of his new film, The Critic, at the Curzon Mayfair in London on Monday. The actor famously played the wizard Gandalf in the first three films of Lord of the Rings franchise as well as The Hobbit trilogy, all directed by New Zealand film-maker Peter Jackson.
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