Gandalf And Dumbledore Frequently Get Mixed Up, And Ian McKellen Explained The Funny Way He And Michael Gambon Dealt With It
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Gandalf And Dumbledore Frequently Get Mixed Up, And Ian McKellen Explained The Funny Way He And Michael Gambon Dealt With It



When I was a little kid, I thought Gandalf and Dumbledore were the same person, meaning I didn’t just think the same actor played them, I thought they were the same wizard. Well, I quickly figured out that I was wrong, and I also swiftly fell in love with Ian McKellen’s Lord of the Rings istar and Michael Gambon’s take on Hogwarts’ Headmaster. However, it turns out I wasn’t the only one who confused the fantasy characters, because McKellen hilariously explained how he and Gambon dealt with the frequent mix-ups from fans.

Let me set the scene for these hilarious comments from McKellen. He was doing an interview with Magic Radio, and he mentioned that on his way to this radio spot, he saw himself on a bus. He said he didn’t think he’d ever seen himself on the side of a bus before, but the interviewer couldn’t quite believe that – especially considering his prominent roles in the casts of Lord of the Rings and X-Men. This led the actor to explain that when the Harry Potter movies came out, people thought he was on the side of busses, but it was really the late great Michael Gambon:

There was a time when they were making the Harry Potter movies and with each movie, they made Dumbledore, Mike Gambon, look more and more like Gandalf. By the last movie, it was Gandalf up there on the busses. And I said, ‘Well, I might have been in a film I didn’t know I’d made.’





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