Sir Ian McKellen on the joy of chosen family: ‘Do I now wish I had children? Well, I do’

Sir Ian McKellen reflects on having not had kids, and the joy of chosen family in a new interview with Attitude. “I’ve got young people I’m allowed to criticize and befriend and love,” he said. “They don’t need to come from your loins for you to feel that they’re family.” \The acting legend plays a queer man who’s a father of middle-aged children in new film The Christophers. He will soon return to the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.