A lawyer from Yekaterinburg, a Russian Ural city, appealed to the police demanding to bring administrative action against British actor Ian McKellen for smoking at the doors of the local city airport, Dmitry Rozhin, the applicant, told RIA Novosti news agency on Tuesday.

McKellen, 77, who is best known globally for his Gandalf role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Hobbit, as well as several X-Men movies, visited Yekaterinburg on June 23 . The actor was a participant in the opening ceremony of a Shakespeare Lives event “In Midsummer Nights” held in Yekaterinburg. At some time a video showing McKellen smoking at the airport doors was made public.

Rozhin complained that in spite of the obvious fact that the local police officers were around, nobody dared to correct the actor telling him that it was prohibited to smoke in this area. The regional Interior Ministry Directorate promised to clarify the matter later.