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Ian McKellen: I said to myself 'this is the end'

Sir Ian McKellen talks to Amol Rajan about the moment he fell off a stage in London.

Sir Ian McKellen talks to Amol Rajan after he took a break from acting following a fall off stage in London's West End. The 85 year-old, who suffered a broken wrist and chipped vertebrae, describes the emotional 'residue' of the accident.

He鈥檚 back on screen playing a gay theatre critic in The Critic, set in the 1930s before homosexuality was legalised in the UK.

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