Sir Ian McKellen has admitted he was more than happy to let the stunt people tackle the dangerous scenes in the Lord of The Rings films.
“When I realized on ‘Last Action hero’ that even so fit a gent as Arnold Schwarzenegger has a double, I lost any worries about being thought weedy,” McKellen told Inquest magazine.
“Confronting the Balrog was hard because, whatever you eventually see in ‘The Fellowship Of The Ring’, all I saw aloft in the studio was a yellow tennis ball, Gandalf’s eyeline for the monstrous fiery creature.”
‘Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring’ will be released in December.
