"When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality."
Ian McKellen is an English actor known for stage and screen roles including Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and Magneto in the X-Men films. He has received major awards and multiple Academy Award nominations.