He has won many awards and worked on several projects, including animated television shows and films, and traveled the convention circuit. In that time, he has become an advocate for pitbulls and their adoption, he has participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge, and he has even lived the entire life of Professor Xavier in X-Men. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan adapted it for the Web.It has been more than a decade and a half since Sir Patrick Stewart wore a Federation uniform in Star Trek. Lauren Krenzel and Joel Wolfram produced and edited this interview for broadcast. And sometimes I would get mixed up and oh, did that get me in trouble with my friends! I would attempt to speak 'RP' and then Monday to Friday, when I was at school, I spoke with a broad Yorkshire accent. For a couple of years, my life was split. And you must work on what was called 'RP' - received pronunciation.". Not all the time, but you're going to have to be able to lose it. when I was 13, when she said to me, "Patrick, if you really want to play everything onstage, you're going to have to lose that accent. So when my acting teacher, who I luckily met. ![]() What I did feel, to a certain extent, was that it was hard for me to play very sophisticated upper-class or upper middle-class people, because I used to find the accent kind of difficult. I mean, both of them had slight accents, and both of them were brilliant. Actors like Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay were already leading, star actors and they came from working-class backgrounds. ![]() On coming from a working-class background and studying at the Royal Shakespeare Company Patrick's next door at the council meeting, he'll be right there!" found out! And then the next morning, I was called in to the editor's office and given an ultimatum. There's a huge blaze." And the sub-editor said, "No, no, no. and the editor and the sub-editor called each other and they said, "We've gotta get somebody out there. I didn't get really found out until one night when I was supposed to be at a council meeting, a huge fire broke out. Or the final alternative was that I just made it up. Sometimes I would just get someone to cover for me if I had a rehearsal and there was a council meeting or something I had to attend, or I would have a contact there and I would phone him afterwards, and he would give me all the. On a brief period of time where he was a reporter in his hometownįor a year I worked on a local newspaper and that didn't work out for me. I just loved the experience of being someone else - not being Patrick Stewart - and exploring what my life might be like if I were someone else. Forget about that!" So I happily and delightedly signed a contract which committed me to six years. So you're not going to be here for six years. You cannot revive an iconic series like those three seasons of the original Star Trek. I've got to tell you, this show will be lucky to make it through the first season. that was when my agent was the very first person - and many others followed him - to say to me, "Look, don't worry about six years. And the idea that I would have to shut that down for six years was horrifying. I'd been playing leading Shakespearean roles for a number of years, and now I was getting leading roles on television, and I was being offered transfers into the West End and transfers to Broadway. It was terrifying to me, because what it meant was that I was going to have to shut down my career, which actually - and I don't know whether there is any connection here - actually had started to take off in a way that I was very pleased with. On his initial reaction when offered the role of Jean-Luc Picard in the 1987 series Star Trek: The Next Generation, which required a six-year commitment "A little tingle started in my spine with regard to some of the ideas and concepts that they were putting forward," he says. Instead, Stewart listened as the executive producers described the series, and his outlook began to shift. I wanted to meet with these brilliant people face to face to tell them why I was going to say no to their show." "This may sound somewhat arrogant," he says, "but. Nevertheless, he agreed to take a meeting with the show's executive producers. when I felt that I had said everything that I wanted to say about Jean-Luc Picard and his life on the Enterprise."ĭecades later, when he heard about plans for Star Trek: Picard, a new series on CBS All Access, he wasn't interested. "Star Trek had taken over my life," Stewart says. ![]() Patrick Stewart is back as Jean-Luc Picard on the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard.Īfter playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation for seven seasons - more than 170 episodes - and in four movies, Patrick Stewart was ready to say goodbye to the role in 2002.
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