Hamnet may be about to win big at the Oscars, but Sir Ian McKellen won’t be voting for Chloe Zhao’s weepie to win Best Picture.
The British actor, who became a member of the Academy in 1999 after receiving a nomination for Gods and Monsters, is a Shakespeare enthusiast who has played characters ranging from Hamlet and King Lear to Macbeth and Henry IV’s John Falstaff.