Tag: Ian McKellen
X-Men Character’s Return All But Confirmed by Actor
Deadpool 3 is rumored to be chock full of cameos – and perhaps larger roles – from a plethora of X-Men characters played by the actors who portrayed them in the Fox movies from 2000 on. But today, another hint at a possible appearance was delivered by the actor himself. This piece will get into...
Read MoreAre Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan Coming Back to Marvel?
Professor X and Magneto may not be done with their chess game yet. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight while promoting season 3 of Picard (which is supposed to be really good), Stewart was asked if he’d be returning to play Charles Xavier after his brief appearance in Doctor Strange in the ...
Read MoreAndrew Garfield on Straight Actors Taking Gay Roles
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Mar 23, 2022 | 0
Another celebrity is standing against the wokeness and idiocracy of Hollywood, putting his career in danger to do so while still demonstrating empathy for those affected by ancient hate. During a recent interview with The Telegraph, Andrew Garfield was asked if he believed straight actors should be ...
Read MoreIan McKellen Defends Helen Mirren | “We’re Acting. We’re Pretending.”
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Mar 7, 2022 | 0
We live in an era in which actors are increasingly not allowed to pretend for a living, despite that being their very job. The last few years have seen many controversies regarding the casting of certain roles where the actors in question do not fit the belief or sexual orientation of their characte...
Read MoreCelebrating X-Men 20 Years Later
X-Men was a landmark movie that showed Hollywood that superhero films could be far more than leather costumes. Thanks in part to producer Avi Arad – who, at the time, was well-known for producing the X-Men and Spider-Man animated series for Fox Kids – 20th Century Fox picked up the movie rights ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Cats (2019)
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats opened in London in 1981 and on Broadway in 1982 and has since become a global phenomenon. Consisting of lyrics from T. S. Elliot’s book of poems Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and featuring Webber’s music, it is largely considered to be the prototypical m...
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