Movies
Sir Ian McKellen To Play Sherlock Holmes
Sir Ian McKellen To Play Sherlock Holmes
![Sir%20ian%20mckellen-300_178](https://www.out.com/media-library/sir-20ian-20mckellen-300-178.jpg?id=32806985&width=1200&height=712)
McKellen will play the detective as an old man, in a new film by Bill Condon
September 06 2013 7:15 PM EST
May 01 2018 11:43 PM EST
By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Private Policy and Terms of Use.
Sir Ian McKellen To Play Sherlock Holmes
Of the dozens of portrayals of Sherlock Holmes, a significant number of them have had a certain homosexual je ne sais quoi. Maybe it's from having so many English dramatic types playing the part over the years. The BBC's new Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, is certainly a gay fave, and the Robert Downey, Jr./Jude Law pairing of Holmes/Watson made the "roommates" euphemism sound oh so familiar. In a gay way.
But now, we have the most definitively gay Sherlock Holmes evah. Check the math. Ian McKellen (gay actor) will play Holmes in a film by Bill Condon (gay director) adapted from a novel by Mitch Cullin (gay novelist). That's quite literally gay, gay, gay.
McKellen will play an ageing Holmes, a character from Cullin's novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, set in the 1940s, with the detective retired but still pondering a 50-year-old unsolved mystery. Condon has directed McKellen before, in the 1998 drama Gods and Monsters, for which McKellen got an Oscar nomination.
H/T Guardian