Ian McKellen publica sentido mensaje por fallecimiento de Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart – Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen publicó un sentido mensaje de despedida por el fallecimiento de su amigo Patrick Stewart, con quien llegó a sumar más de 50 años de amistad.
El actor de 87 años que gran cantidad de personas lo asocian por su papel de Magneto en las peliculas de X-Men compartió un una publicación en X en la que recordó cuando Stewart le contó de que le había salido una opción de participar en la serie de Star Trek.
"Llevaba el corazón en la mano, lo que lo convertía en un hombre en quien confiar, a quien admirar y, en mi caso, amar", es parte del mensaje publicado por McKellen.
Fue este jueves durante la tarde que la familia de Stewart dio a conocer el fallecimiento del actor que tenía 86 años y que es recordado por sus papeles en Star Trek y también en X-Men como Charles Xavier.
Incluso en la película de Avengers Doomsday que se publica este próximo mes de diciembre, Stewart aparece como el Profesor X.
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren't in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in ‘Star Trek'. "But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?". Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes (‘X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London's West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in ‘Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
— Ian McKellen (@IanMcKellen) October 30, 2026