Ian McKellen sat down with Stephen Colbert in February and delivered something television rarely makes room for anymore. Midway through an extended conversation covering his decades on stage and screen, McKellen performed the “Strangers’ Case” speech from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More, a 400-year-old monologue advocating for empathy toward immigrants and refugees that landed in the studio with the weight of a current headline. The extended interview is streaming now and well worth the full runtime.