Walter and his friends
2, Nov 1982
Walter

—With Barbara Jefford—

Casting me as Walter who, in the 1980s, was considered “mentally handicapped” wouldn’t, I suspect, be thought appropriate today. But it was the part of a lifetime, written by David Cook who had understudied me onstage in A Lily in Little India and directed by Stephen Frears, who I first met at Cambridge Unversity.

Walter on McKellen.com

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