{"id":479993,"date":"2026-05-11T23:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479993\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:54:16","slug":"ian-mckellen-reveals-one-downside-of-returning-to-lord-of-the-rings-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479993\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen reveals one downside of returning to Lord of The Rings | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ian-mckellen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian McKellen<\/a> has revealed the one reason why is \u201cnot excited\u201d to reprise his role as Gandalf.<\/p>\n<p>The 86-year-old actor is set to return as the Grey Wizard once more in The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/lord-of-the-rings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lord of the Rings<\/a>: The Hunt for Gollum, which is set between the end of The Hobbit trilogy and the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on The One Show on Monday (11 May), McKellen said that he decided to return to the franchise as he \u201ccouldn\u2019t bear anybody else playing Gandalf\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being excited to don his \u201cpointy hat and long beard\u201d once more, McKellen also admitted that he is not looking forward to returning to New Zealand to film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m heading back to New Zealand in the middle of their winter. Windy Wellington.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen has revealed the one reason why is \u201cnot excited\u201d to reprise his role as Gandalf. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[176496,28691,206279,196316,27125,206278,18,117,206277,789,19,17,54520,27980,194887,327,432,86065,206274,196318,4335,196315,383,119,196314,177982,206275,49898,206276,206280],"class_list":{"0":"post-479993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-antonin-kinsky","9":"tag-atletico-madrid","10":"tag-bestpix","11":"tag-club-soccer","12":"tag-color-image","13":"tag-eight-finals","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-first-leg","17":"tag-horizontal","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-julian-alvarez","21":"tag-madrid","22":"tag-match-sport","23":"tag-movies","24":"tag-photography","25":"tag-sadness","26":"tag-scoring","27":"tag-scoring-a-goal","28":"tag-soccer","29":"tag-soccer-player","30":"tag-spain","31":"tag-sport","32":"tag-sports-team","33":"tag-stadium","34":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","35":"tag-uefa-champions-league","36":"tag-union-of-european-football-associations","37":"tag-wanda-metropolitano"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116558644293645129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}