The 85-year-old was forced to drop out of “Player Kings.”
“My chipped vertebrae and fractured wrist are not yet mended,” the 85-year-old revealed.
McKellen detailed exactly how the fall happened: “It was in the battle scene.
Ian McKellen performs in ‘Player Kings’ in London.Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/Getty
That’s when he panicked.
“I started screaming, ‘Help me!’
and then ‘I’m sorry!
I don’t do this!’
I thought it was the end of something.
It was very upsetting.”
Producers announced on July 1 that McKellen haddropped out of the showon the advice of his medical team.
