Ian McKellen is 87 years old and, as I think is understandable, he couldn’t care less about the Marvel Universe. To be honest, I hope that at 87 I won’t care either, but, unlike McKellen, without having to work. The fact is that the actor has once again put Magneto’s suit back on to kill the character off once and for all in Avengers: Doomsday, and of course, he’s found himself having no idea who all those people are.
Do you work here? Well, good for you
Anthony Mackie, the current Captain America (who first took on the role in Brave New World last year) has told how his meeting with the legendary actor went: “I went over to where Ian McKellen was, and he said to me ‘Hello, son!’. And I said ‘Ian McKellen, sir. You’re incredible. It’s incredible to work with you’. He asked me ‘And what do you do in the movie?’, and I said ‘I’m Captain America’“.
McKellen then told him “Wonderful… And you deserve it”, to which Mackie can only respond, even now, “Thank you, Sir Ian, thank you”. I know what you’re thinking, that McKellen probably, if anything, caught a Chris Evans movie by chance and doesn’t know how important the character is in the MCU, but, honestly, I’d end up bawling my eyes out if something like that happened to me.
On December 18 we’ll see whether packing dozens of characters into one movie works in the most ambitious Marvel movie to date or we’ll leave wanting nothing more to do with Avengers: Secret Wars. As for Ian McKellen, we hope he’s around for a long time yet, okay?
