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I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it.
Ian Mckellen
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Ian Mckellen
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: May 25
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Sir Ian Murray McKellen
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