{"id":2270970,"date":"2026-02-07T04:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2270970"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:42:13","slug":"ian-mckellen-reveals-the-moment-he-took-aim-at-trump-while-filming-new-marvel-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ian-mckellen-reveals-the-moment-he-took-aim-at-trump-while-filming-new-marvel-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen Reveals The Moment He Took Aim At Trump While Filming New Marvel Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ian McKellen is reprising his role as supervillain Magneto in the upcoming <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/marvel\">Marvel<\/a> film \u201cAvengers: Doomsday,\u201d and this week, he recalled the moment he took a swipe at President <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> while filming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The taunt came while filming his character\u2019s destruction of New Jersey, the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d star told \u201cThe Late Show\u201d host Stephen Colbert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m standing up, pretending to do that, and the wind is blowing in my hair, and I\u2019m putting on a fierce look, and I\u2019m trying to be magnetic,\u201d McKellen remembered. \u201cAnd the director, over the loudspeaker, says, \u2018Ian, look more furious.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After being instructed to shout something, McKellen asked what it should be, only to be told: \u201cShout the worst thing you could possibly think of.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With his arms outstretched, the actor boomed: \u201cMar-a-Lago.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Colbert\u2019s audience erupted in cheers over the revelation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>McKellen, who is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/ian-mckellen-donald-trump_n_5736158ae4b077d4d6f2fe56\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"no fan of Trump\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6985a671e4b0fa2b17030e38\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"5736158ae4b077d4d6f2fe56\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">no fan of Trump<\/a>, sat down and wondered aloud: \u201cWill I be allowed back in the country?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWill you be allowed back in the country? No guarantees,\u201d Colbert, himself a fierce critic of the president, laughingly responded, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m the right person to ask for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Watch the full interview here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian McKellen is reprising his role as supervillain Magneto in the upcoming Marvel film \u201cAvengers: Doomsday,\u201d and this week, he recalled the moment he took a swipe at President Donald Trump while filming. The taunt came while filming his character\u2019s destruction of New Jersey, the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d star told \u201cThe Late Show\u201d host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2270971,"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":[25173],"tags":[22389,348136,22653],"class_list":["post-2270970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-donald-trump","tag-ian-mckellen","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ian-McKellen-Reveals-The-Moment-He-Took-Aim-At-Trump.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270970","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=2270970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270972,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270970\/revisions\/2270972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}