SIR IAN MCKELLEN HABLA DE SHERLOCK

“The take of this film is that he wasn’t fiction, he was a real man, and he wasn’t really like the Sherlock Holmes that Dr Watson portrays in the short stories and novels”

“That was the intriguing part of it, that although Sherlock Holmes is a part many, many actors have successfully played and are still doing, this was, at least, not a script that any of them had done before. And part of the newness is Sherlock Holmes is very old.”

“At my age, I’m inevitably interested in what it’s like to be an old man, surviving your friends, trying to make new ones and trying to understand a sometimes alien world”

“It’s not a fantasy world that he lives in, but a very real world.”