Sir Ian McKellen Does An Amazing Maggie Smith Impression - The Graham Norton Show

very quickly it is Oscars weekend this weekend and there Ian would you mind telling us the story about when you were nominated for Gandalf seminary and you had the the beads yeah well there weren't beats the in New Zealand where we filmed Lord the Rings [Applause] if you're lucky when you leave you're given a piece of green stone carved and you wear it often enough and your chances out you'll get back to New Zealand that's the idea and it'll bring you a bit of luck so when those films were nominated with something like 20 Oscars on that night everybody from New Zealand was wearing the green stone that Pournami they're caught and run we're on the red carpet going into the certainly I met Maggie Smith you know what our union what are you here for I said well Lord of the Rings oh yeah she said what's that around your neck no sir it's my phone on me maybe I only owe punar me once that if I said well if I wear it it will bring me luck and and we went our separate ways and unit lasts for three and a half or four hours you know and at the end of course everyone else wins the Oscar apart from you and a bit dejected you're coming out looking forward to drinking you bump into Maggie Smith and she points out it didn't work [Applause] graham norton air if you'd like to see even more stuff like that that hit subscribe or don't it's a free world but I know what I do in that situation

Channel: The Graham Norton Show

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Length: 1min 57sec (117 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 24 2017