NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Ian McKellen Says He Imagined Destroying Mar-a-Lago While Filming Avengers: Doomsday.

The actor rose from his seat to reenact the moment for the audience, explaining that the Russo brothers wanted him to appear even angrier as Magneto unleashed his powers.

“They told me to look more furious — make it look as if you hate what you’re destroying,” said McKellen.

That’s when the actor came up with his own motivation for the scene.

“So I stood there and I shouted: ‘Mar-a-Lago!’ ” he said, referring to President Donald Trump‘s Florida estate.

How much is McKellen acting when he plays a cartoon supervillain? Flashback: Defacing the Bible because of Homosexuality.

In an August 10 interview on New Zealand’s TV1 Close Up program McKellen was confronted by the interviewer questioning the truth of the rumor “He’s the one, that when he stays in hotels rips the part of the Bible out that criticizes homosexuality.”

“Yes it is true,” responded McKellen in even tones. “It’s Leviticus 18:22 that I object to, or is it 22:18, I’ve always got to look it up. Thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination. And they, I think the punishment for an abomination was being stoned to death,” he said.

McKellen added, “I think it’s rather obscene and pornographic, and shouldn’t be there, so I remove it.”

Asked how many Bibles he has vandalized, McKellen replied, “I have no idea, but other people do it as well, people send me evidence that they have been removing that.”

McKellen has been vandalizing Bibles in the same fashion for at least a few years. He first admitted publicly to the activity in 2004 in an interview with the UK Telegraph.

It seems odd then that McKellen imagines himself destroying the property of someone who’s been a gay rights proponent for decades.