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30 December 2004 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Jeremy Irons wasn't British director Michael Radford's first choice to play Antonio in the new movie adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, but he admits he was a better choice. The Brideshead Revisited star stepped in to play the Venetian nobleman in the film after Lord Of The Rings star Sir Ian McKellen dropped out due to scheduling problems. And Radford admits McKellen's timing problems helped him find his perfect Antonio. The Il Postino director says, "The thing about Ian McKellen is he's much older, and he's not a movie actor. He became a bit of a movie star, but he's not really a movie actor, which Jeremy Irons is. When Ian dropped out, I suddenly thought of Jeremy. As I thought of him, I thought, 'My goodness me, this actually is the perfect person because he has such a magnetic quality on screen, and he has a kind of melancholy about him."

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