Ian McKellen says his fat suit “saved” him after he fell off stage during a London performance in June, though he remains in “agonising pain” while he recovers from the injuries.
The 85-year-old actor was two months into a season of Player Kings – as Shakespeare’s Falstaff – when he fell from the stage into the first row of the audience at London’s Noël Coward theatre. He subsequently withdrew from the show.
