Sir Ian McKellen says comic book movie monologues are rather short in length... and that's pretty understandable coming from an award-winning West End and Broadway actor.
"I think the script has been grounded in work based on the most wonderful writing," McKellen told the crowd at a screening for The Christophers attended by GamesRadar+. "Whether it's Shakespeare or Marlowe or Oscar Wilde or Noel Coward or Tom Stoppard or Simon Stevens or in translation, and they express what they want to say in the most wonderful language, which is beyond those people. And I want to speak these words. Now what I'm doing... when I'm in X-Men mode, I'm always saying I got to have a good speech. Well, because X-Men is based on a comic, and the general length of speeches in the comic is 'pow!'"
