Quite low down in the list is How much am I going to be paid?... my ma…

Ian Mckellen
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Quite low down in the list is How much am I going to be paid?... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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