After losing his balance during a Player Kings battle scene at the Noel Coward Theatre in June, Sir Ian, 85, has sustained injuries to his neck and hand.
He withdrew from the national tour of the show to concentrate on his recuperation, but he told Saga magazine that things might have turned out worse if he hadn’t been wearing certain clothes.
In the play, Sir Ian played John Falstaff. “My chipped vertebrae and fractured wrist are not yet mended,” he added.
I avoid going out because I’m afraid someone will bump into me and because I get excruciating shoulder ache from being startled.
However, the fact that I was dressed overweight for Falstaff helped to spare my other joints and ribs.
His foot snagged in a chair during a war scene, causing him to tumble onto newspapers strewn all over the stage, he continued, calling the fall “horrible”.
He added that the harder I attempted to get rid of it, the quicker I descended a step, onto the forestage, and then onto someone’s lap in the front row.
“I cried out, ‘Help me,’ and then said, ‘I apologize; I don’t do this.'” extraordinary occurrences.
