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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, two knights of the realm noted for their serious dramatic heft, have become a fixture of New York.!

I was chatting about Sir Patrick Stewart NOT Ian McKellan the ACTOR.

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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, two knights of the realm noted for their serious dramatic heft, have become a fixture of New York.

Michael Schulman interviews Patrick Stewart about his new memoir, his acting career, and his encounters with Paul McCartney, Queen Elizabeth.

The renowned and bestselling memoir—written with “insight, truth, and passion” (Sir Ian McKellen)—from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick.

As it is? Pinter’s at his best in No Man’s Land

Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Steward in the Hampstead Drawing Room. Photo credit Johann Persson

If you’ve ever doubted that Harold Pinter deserved his 2005 Nobel Prize, take yourself to see Sean Mathias’ production of No Man’s Land with the duo of theatrical knights, Sir Ian McKellen (as Spooner) and Sir Patrick Stewart (as Hirst) at Wyndham’s Theatre.

Forty-one years ago, at the same venue, another pair of knights, Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, starred in Peter Hall’s original production of this, Pinter’s most poetic play; and I remember Michael Gambon as Hirst in 2008, directed by Rupert Goold, then our most promising young director.

In 1975 the play was an utter mystery, at least to me.

I missed the cricketing allusions in the names of the four characters – though now that I know them (thanks to a marvellously detailed and imaginative programme), I can’t really see their relevance, except to the cricket-obses