“…sometimes when I see posters of Michael Gambon, the actor who gloriously plays Dumbledore, I think it’s me,” McKellen quipped.
Harris passed away after second film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and eventually Michael Gambon stepepd into the role for the remainder of the franchise.
It was here where McKellen recalled that Harris had called him and fellow thespians Derek Jacobi and Kenneth Branagh as “technically brilliant, but passionless.”
McKellen will reprise the role of Gandalf in an upcoming one-man theatre production.