Ben Kingsley News

Ben Kingsley is set to appear as Dr. Squires in The Wackness, a dark comedy that comes out nationwide in August.

Following that part, the Academy Award winner will take on the role of a psychiatrist again in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.

"I play another psychiatrist, but very different from Dr. Squires. Very sober, very against the use of drugs in therapy, and also very against the use of surgical intervention in therapy," said Kingsley.

As for his costar in Shutter Island, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kingsley simply said: "He and I have some very, very strong scenes together."

Should it really come as a shock that Ghandi doesn't do drugs?

Sir Ben Kingsley - who an Oscar for his portrayal of the spiritual and political leader - reportedly had to be shown how to smoke pot for his role in The Wackness.

Kingsley stars as a marijuana-addicted therapist in the film, but director Jonathan Levine told the New York Daily News that the actor had to be given instruction on how to make his inhalation look realistic.

"I had to teach him how to properly hit a bong," Levine said. "It's kind of like herbal tobacco. It doesn't taste great or smell great, either. I felt bad for everyone's lungs."

Ben Kingsley is 64 and an Oscar winner.

Mary-Kate Olsen is 22 and really thin.

Still, the veteran actor recently told People Magazine that the former Full House star was "completely in charge" of the on-screen smooch between this odd coupling in The Wackness.

Writer/director of The Wackness, Jonathan Levine, said that although he was never a drug dealer, the movie is loosely based on his own experiences growing up in New York.

Even with this all-star cast, Levine still passed along a few valuable lessons. Most notably?

"I did have to teach Sir Ben how to take a bong hit," Levine said.

The Hollywood Reporter states that Ben Kingsley will join Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, a film based on the 2004 novel by Dennis Lehane.

Shooting is set to begin in March.

Laeta Kalogridis adapted the screenplay about "a U.S. marshal (Ruffalo) who along with his new partner (DiCaprio) travels to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane.

During their inquiry, the two encounter a web of deceit, experience a hurricane and become involved in a deadly inmate riot that leaves them trapped on the island."