Patrick Stewart

I was fortunate enough to meet him *very* briefly at a promo event for First Contact -- shorter than me, very calm and self-possessed, you can tell he's a private man when it comes to dealing with crowds and fans, but has a definite rapport with his coworkers and colleagues.

Have also met P. Stewart, and Ned is spot-on w/his descrip. Stewart looked incredibly good when I saw him - tanned, trim, and wearing a v. nice and obv. v. v. expensive suit. He is a bit of a luvvie, but also dry, amusing and surprisingly left-wing!

I also saw him years ago acting in Henry IV pts. 1 and 2 on stage, and he was gd in a long-forgotten tv series abt a psychiatrist called 'Maybury'. And didn't he play Karla in the Alec Guiness/Le Carre TV adaptations?

Doesn't he also do a one man stage version of a Christmas Carol?

Former Director of Royal Shakespeare Company Trevor Nunn once lost it big time and claimed that the word was as unacceptable and as offensive as n*gger. It isn't. But it is a bit mean.

I saw him at a performance of Oleanna in London. Not in it, but he was buying a drink at the interval. great anecdote huh?

'dwarling'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf9oD_xl8mI

man w/all the celeb deaths i got real scared about why this got bumped.

That's SIR Patrick Stewart to you. If you're in the UK.

I loved this so much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi_27bpIb30&feature=player_embedded

Quite, quite moving.

Sir!

http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00680/patrick-stewart-_680721artw.jpg http://i47.tinypic.com/70f1oh.jpg

Queenie dear, don't you go trusting that Sejanus fellow! He's a snake in the grass.

I clicked on the second pic first, and thought it was the genuine thing! Now my world is a tiny bit sadder.

God, they really shouldn't let the queen dress like that.

sackloth would be more appropriate

looks almost like a muumuu.

so he's a white supremacist punk club owner in the Blue Ruin guy's new one

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/a-punk-band-faces-murderous-skinheads-in-the-harrowing-green-room-8508752

I'm certain he played VI Lenin in something once - born to play that role - but what was it?

tv mini, '74

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207885/fullcredits

http://www.moviemail.com/img/still/14263/Fall-of-Eagles-14263_3.jpg

I think Patrick was briefly researching white supremacists visiting some of his family in Mirfield last year :p

(xp) That's a pretty lengthy cast of characters there!

It is an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions within him. Read my full statement in the photo. #StarTrek @cbsallaccess Photo: @shervinfoto pic.twitter.com/8Ynuj3RBNm

— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) August 4, 2018

!!!

I love Stewart, Picard, and TNG, but making a new series about him is completely unnecessary.

The only way I could see this working is if they take the Star Wars route, i.e. the actual protagonists would be of a younger generation, and Picard would mostly serve a mentor role.

"to research and experience what comforting and reforming light he might shine on these often very dark times"

lol! purest luvvie bullshit there.

I mean I don't expect him to say gigabucks and scraping the barrel is the real story, but that is troweling it on a bit thick!

C'mon, it's Patrick Stewart, luvviness and actorly overstatement are an intrinsic part of the package

Anyway, glad about this, hopefully TNG crew will turn up and they needed a better sendoff than Nemesis

Also NB old people don't always have to be mentors, yknow

he’s coming back as a force ghost to mentor rey iirc

Salut. Hell of a run.

William Shatner outlived Patrick Stewart. The world is a strange place. i must say Stewart made a heckuva starship captain, but his Sejanus was even better.

RIP.

Pretty convincing V. Lenin, circa 1974

https://i0.wp.com/thecharnelhouse.org//wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1148774528.jpg

Aw man. I thought he would be one of those guys who live to 100.

Had no idea he had a brutal upbringing

The family scraped by, living in a grim little house with no running hot water. The bathroom was outside, in a brick communal outhouse for the neighborhood, one stall to a family. Patrick used his family’s stall as a reading nook.

Much later in life, he wrote and spoke about the domestic violence that had shattered his childhood. His father was reduced to working as a semiskilled laborer after his military career, and became what Mr. Stewart described as a resentful “weekend alcoholic” who physically attacked his mother for years, sometimes in Patrick’s presence.

As Mr. Stewart recalled in a 2009 article he wrote for The Guardian, “I knew exactly when to insert a small body between the fist and her face, a skill no child should ever have to learn.

Stewart made a heckuva starship captain, but his Sejanus was even better

One of my favourite moments in his career is his rueful little smile when he realises that he's been outmaneuvered by Tiberius and that the jig is up.

RIP. During the pandemic he'd read Shakespeare sonnets on his Instagram. I really cherished those posts.

Lovely post here from Mason Stoops, the guitarist in Stewart's wife's band:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DfGHAtglnmo/

Playing Shakespeare - Exploring A Character (19th August 1982). Patrick Stewart and David Suchet debate how to tackle the role of Shylock.

From George Takei:

My favorite Patrick Stewart story arose out of a chance encounter. We happened both to be seated on the same flight in the same cabin near one another. I looked over and saw a familiar bald pate and furrowed brow.

“Aren't you…?” I asked him.

He looked over and his face lit up with delight. Then he spoke to me in that unmistakable proper manner of his.

“Well aren't YOU!” he responded, his eyes twinkling.

We had a good laugh. Rest in power—warp power—Sir Patrick Stewart.