Ian McKellen is teasing Johnny Depp's upcoming Hollywood return in Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol. "He's in spankingly good form," McKellen told Variety in an interview on Wednesday, April 8. "Effervescent, funny, irreverent, serious - all at the same time. It was a bit of a love fest, really. I fell in love with him. He's very obliging to his fellow actors. [There was] a wonderful feeling on the set." Depp, 62, plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the upcoming fantasy film based on Charles Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol. He is joined by McKellen, 86, as Scrooge's former business partner, Jacob Marley.