Ian McKellen thanks online pilates for keeping him active amid lockdown

Veteran star Ian McKellen has credited online pilates sessions for keeping him active during Covid-19 lockdown.He added: "The trouble with a lot of people my age is that they are decrepit, not simply because they are getting older but because they are not doing enough of what they always did do -- walk, run, exercise. It's all too easy to think, 'Well, I'll have a little sleep now. It's 11 o'clock in the morning'."

Now that people are beginning to come out of lockdown, he finds himself taking on new forms of 'exercise' as he prepares for his "athletic" role of Hamlet onstage.