Ian McKellen can speed through Richard III — no problem. He's also played King Lear and the Danish prince. But Chloe Zhao's Hamnet, which imagines the creative origins of William Shakespeare's Hamlet?

Hamnet may be about to win big at the Oscars, but Sir Ian McKellen won’t be voting for Chloe Zhao’s weepie to win Best Picture. The British actor, who became a member of the Academy in 1999 after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ian McKellen revealed that he did not quite understand Hamnet and its stance on exploring William Shakespeare’s creative origins.

Ian McKellen disagrees with several aspects of the film Hamnet, based on the 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell, which concerns itself with the life of William Shakespeare. "I don't quite get it," ...