{"id":312,"date":"2026-11-10T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/?p=312"},"modified":"2026-11-10T17:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T01:39:01","slug":"frank-and-percy-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/frank-and-percy-having-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Frank and Percy&#8221;: Having fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Making movies is the most wonderful thing in the world. Working with friends. Entertaining people.&#8221;\u2014Ian McKellen as James Whale in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ianmckellen.us\/vault\/1998\/11\/04\/gods-and-monsters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gods and Monsters<\/a><\/em> (1998)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ddbf6ee2 wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/8.-DSCF0832.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/8.-DSCF0832.jpg\" alt=\"Frank (Roger Allam) and Percy (Ian McKellen) in &quot;Frank and Percy&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-331\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What are Frank and Percy waiting for?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1.-DSCF1556.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1.-DSCF1556.jpg\" alt=\"Frank (Roger Allam) and Percy (Ian McKellen) in &quot;Frank and Percy&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-333\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frank (Roger Allam) and Percy (me) by the seaside.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1265\" src=\"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Allam and Ian McKellen in &quot;Frank and Percy&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-309\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Where can they be off to now?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-11-08-at-08.22.55.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1318\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-11-08-at-08.22.55.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-321\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">And so to bed, at last.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Photos by Frederic Aranda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Making movies is the most wonderful thing in the world. Working with friends. Entertaining people.&#8221;\u2014Ian McKellen as James Whale in Gods and Monsters (1998) Photos by Frederic Aranda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frank-and-percy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckellen.com\/wp3\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}