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Sirs Patrick Stewart & Ian McKellen Will Not Grant Us The Best Reality Show Ever Created

MAKE IT SO DAMMIT!

StewartMcKellenI mean, did you really think they could keep up the effort of being that awesome on a rigid reality TV filming schedule? I know I couldn’t.

Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen have wrapped their fabulous NYC tour after a run on Broadway in Waiting for Godot but why should the fun stop there? Well for one, it hasn’t. They play the Newlywed Game and were having quite a bit of fun on the X-Men: Days of Future Past tour. But in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly for McKellen’s new small-screen project Vicious (“I hope that Stuart doesn’t get jealous of the bromance Stateside,” he said of his fictional partner played by Derek Jacobi), they asked:

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People loved the Twitter photo series of you two during your Broadway runs of Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land. Would you ever consider doing a travel show or another non-dramatic project with him?

I don’t know, it would be nice to do something similar here. I’ve been asked recently to do a number of things which are not to do with acting, particularly on television—presenting and so on. That’s not what I really do best or what I want to do. I enjoy acting. I wouldn’t want to become a TV bore, who turns up everywhere on chat shows and quiz shows and documentaries and so on. No, I think I’ll stick to being an actor.

No, Sir Ian! You’ve got it all wrong! Do all the things!

Seriously though, could you imagine a reality show or other sort of unscripted project starring these two? Traveling around the U.S., popping in people’s houses for dinner, or just…sitting together in a room and talking? I will be dreaming of this tonight.

(via Digital Spy, image via SirPatStew on Twitter)

 

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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