he's known for indelible roles from shakespeare's hamlet to gandalf in the lord of the rings, his career spans over six decades. it's earned him countless awards and accolades, including two oscar nominations. and this week. so in mckellen came here here to our london studio to talk about his new movie, the critic in which he plays a scheming theater reviewer trying to conceal his homosexuality at a time when it was illegal here in britain, he told me about being a born again gay man in real life. and how wearing a fat suit on stage saved him from serious bodily harm in mckellen, welcome back to our program. >> nice to be with. >> listen, i hate to acknowledge, but you just had a prying. i mean, you fell off the stage in the player kings. how are you feeling? >> i'm recovering the last time we talked you went out to me? well, my next job is going to be which was to play a falstaff so john falstaff shakespeare's, eye, conic, character in an adaptation of the players in which he has interest and here we're at the end of that run, which for me, and then when i fell off the stage, when there