Busy month for McKellen

Forget busy summers. Ian McKellen has more big-screen action packed into the month of May than most other British stage actors could hope for in a career.

In the adaptation of Dan Brown’s best seller The Da Vinci Code, McKellen plays Sir Leigh Teabing, the sinfully wealthy, polio-afflicted aristocrat who joins Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou’s characters on their quest for the Holy Grail.