Ian McKellen appeared on The View last week to promote AMC’s upcoming mini-series The Prisoner. After a tense exchange about British health care with a typically-uninformed Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Whoopi asked if the actor would be back in Harry Potter.
“Maybe if I were Michael Gambon,” Sir Ian said.
But a chagrined Whoopi later made up for the embarrassing gaffe by asking a cheeky, but long-overdue Lord of the Rings-related question: will we ever see a black hobbit?
McKellen also mentioned that he has not yet signed a contract for The Hobbit.
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Wow, I really couldn’t finish watching that. It made me cringe, and none of them could pronounce the characters’ names correctly.
Hah!
“Are you coming back in Harry Potter?”
Cough cough AWKWARD cough cough…
Man, Ian McKellan was a real gentleman about that, though, wasn’t he?