"It's all happening 400 years ago, and in London there's a riot happening, there's a mob out in the streets,"
"They're complaining about the presence of strangers in London, by which they mean the recent immigrants who have arrived there."
"be sent back to their home, wherever they came from"
"an appeal to their humanity"
On 5 February, Sir Ian McKellen appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and recalled his 1960s turn as Thomas More, making him the only living actor to originate a role written by William Shakespeare. McKellen set the scene of a 400-year-old London riot driven by anti-immigrant anger and performed a monologue in which rioters demand strangers be returned to their homes. The monologue frames Thomas More as an authority who responds with an appeal to humanity and calls out the rioters' "mountainish inhumanity." The performance drew strong applause and resonated with contemporary protests against ICE in the United States.
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