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\u201cBetter safe than sorry,\u201d the 86-year-old actor said. McKellen went on to note that the last time he was in the city was in 1999 when he was shooting \u201cX-Men<\/a>,\u201d the comic book adventure that saw him originate the role of Magneto<\/a>, a part he will reprise in the upcoming \u201cAvengers: Doomsday<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf you enjoy it, will you tell your friends,\u201d McKellen beseeched the audience at the Princess of Wales Theatre. \u201cThat\u2019s partly what festivals are about, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n McKellen may not have been on hand, but Soderbergh was there, along with screenwriter Ed Solomon<\/a> and his co-stars Michaela Coel<\/a> and Jessica Gunning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was doctor\u2019s orders, but sadly Ian McKellen couldn\u2019t attend the Toronto Film Festival premiere of \u201cThe Christophers,\u201d a new Steven Soderbergh film that gives the Oscar nominee his meatiest role in years. In a pre-taped introduction, McKellen said his \u201cmedical advisers\u201d told him he shouldn\u2019t fly. \u201cBetter safe than sorry,\u201d the 86-year-old actor said. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2005293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2005292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ian-McKellen-Forced-to-Skip-TIFF-Premiere-of-Steven-Soderberghs.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}