You're playing Gandalf again in
The Hobbit
. If Tolkien were alive, what would you ask him?
Well, I don't know. He is of a time gone by. Would he still be smoking today? Would he be the sort of Catholic who wouldn't understand why someone like me would be openly gay and think myself God's creature as he was?
Anything you'd ask him about Gandalf?
We could imagine what he hadn't already revealed. Gandalf must be awfully frustrated sexually. Or maybe after 7,000 years, it doesn't matter anymore.
You've long been highly regarded in the theater. At some point you also...