While chatting to Jimmy Fallon, he reminisced about their earlier stint together on "Saturday Night Live," in wich McKellen dressed in drag as Dame Maggie Smith and stole a kiss from Fallon "for luck." Watch the full episode here:
Watch McKellen below chatting to the team at "The View."
Earlier in the week Mckellen appeared on "Live Kelly & Michael" talking about his experience as grand marshall of the New York City gay pride parade, in which he "got more crowds than the Pope did in Ecuador."
Ian McKellen was last seen on Broadway in Waiting For Godot/No Man's Land, last year at the Cort Theatre.