Sir Ian McKellen “I found myself on stage with ... “You know that they're horrible people and do terrible things, like Macbeth, Iago, but you have to find out what it's like to be that character.

When Gregory Doran asked Ian McKellen to play Falstaff for ... But Falstaff always does,” says McKellen. “With Lear and Macbeth, the plays carry the character along. But with Falstaff you ...