Sir Ian McKellen has blamed a lack of phone sex for the loss of an ex-boyfriend.
The actor thinks that youngsters nowadays are missing out on interacting with people because of their obsessions with technology, but he does think that if he'd have engaged in raunchy telephone conversations whilst starring on Broadway, he'd have been able to hold on to an ex-lover.
Ian explained to Shortlist magazine whilst being interviewed by Hobbit co-star Martin Freeman: "I'd been on Broadway for a year communicating with my boyfriend in London, through letters.
"When I got back I couldn't be surprised that he'd decided not to live with me anymore.
"But if we'd had the internet, if we'd had Skype, phone sex, it would've probably been different."
He also joked that he's "an expert in the missionary position" because he's acted as many heterosexual lovers, but wouldn't have a problem orgasming on stage with a man.
"I did 'Bent' [a play about the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany] on stage. My character and the other leading character have sex without touching, actually.
"I wouldn't have a problem orgasming on stage while talking to another man. People say that's brave. To me it seems quite nice.
"When I did 'Scandal', my first film after coming out, my character, John Profumo, was a raging heterosexual.
"I said to Edward Petherbridge, 'My first scene's with Joanna Whalley and we've got to make love.' So he drew this little diagram.
"I've still got it. I was 50! I'm an expert in the missionary position."
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