Sir Ian McKellen’s ‘emotional memory’ of falling off stage
Actor Sir Ian McKellen describes falling off stage while playing Falstaff in the West End earlier in the year. The Lord of the Rings star says he was saved by the fat suit he was wearing but is left with an “emotional memory” of the accident. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I lost my footing on stage, not because I went dizzy or anything, I just lost my footing and I slid off the stage and fell.
00:10Fortunately I was playing Falstaff, Sir John Falstaff, who's a very fat man, and I was wearing a fat suit.
00:16And that protected my ribs and hips, it was just my extremities.
00:21So I fractured the wrist, which, you know, anyone falling off a bike does.
00:25Bit of a bother with the neck, that's all gone.
00:29What I'm left with now is the emotional memory of the accident, which was more severe than I realised.
00:37I was saying and shouting things about death and so on.
00:41I thought I was on the way out.
00:44And I wasn't, but I'm still left with the memory that I thought I was.
00:51But I'm out and about, but I'm taking it easy.