Simon Callow has reflected on a conversation he had with Ian McKellen before the the Lord of the Rings star came out.
Explaining what happened, Callow said: “So Ian says to me one day in Los Angeles, ‘Look, do you think I should come out?’
Four Weddings and a Funeral star Callow, 72, had come out a few years earlier in 1984, in his book Being an Actor.
I used to say I was John the Baptist to his Jesus as far as coming out was concerned.
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