Actor adds back story to character in ‘Da Vinci’

LOS ANGELES — Forget busy summers. Ian McKellen has more bigscreen action packed into May than most British stage actors could imagine in a career. In the adaptation of the bestseller The Da Vinci Code, to open Friday in theaters, he plays Sir Leigh Teabing, the sinfully wealthy, polio-afflicted aristocrat who joins the quest for the Holy Grail. [More]