A pupil has gone viral after bumping into Ian McKellen whereas dressed as Gandalf on a pub crawl – try the footage under.
Ben Coyles, 22, was dressed because the Lord Of The Rings character for his birthday evening out in Bristol on April 13, when he encountered the Gandalf actor on the street.
A video of the second was posted to TikTok by Coyles’ good friend Scarlet Learmonth, which has since amassed over 3.5million views.
Chatting with the Lancashire Telegraph, Felix Spencer, who was additionally on the pub crawl, defined how the assembly occurred.
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“We had been on the penultimate pub on the pub crawl and, as we’re strolling there, somebody comes up behind me and asks if he’d like our Gandalf to fulfill the true Gandalf,” Spencer mentioned. “I assumed it was somebody simply joking round however once I flip round to speak to him he gestures in direction of his good friend.
“It takes me some time to understand at first however then I see that it’s in actual fact Ian McKellen. I solely spoke to him briefly however he was very well mannered and type and positively excited to see that individuals had been dressing up as characters from a movie he actually loved making.”
McKellen performed Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy, which got here to an finish with 2014’s The Battle Of The 5 Armies.
Again in February, it was introduced that Warner Bros and New Line had signed a deal to make “a number of” new films based mostly on J.R.R. Tolkien’s books.
Final 12 months noticed the debut of prequel sequence The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Energy, which is presently filming for its second season.