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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Captivating insights? Do leave it out, Sir Ian

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The Graham Norton ShowRating: 3/5The Jonathan Ross ShowRating: 2/5The 80s: Music's Greatest Decade?Rating: 2/5What was Sir Ian McKellen thinking?

For a couple of minutes on a prime-time chat show, he started talking seriously — and held everyone mesmerised. The 82-year-old, currently playing the doddery family retainer Firs in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, told The Graham Norton Show (BBC1) how he captured the octogenarian servant's gait, with one palsied hand and a crooked back.

It literally made him feel ancient, he said — and was a vivid contrast to the lithe, nervous gestures he used as the young Prince of Denmark in his previous play, Hamlet.

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