Telegraph.co.uk posted a new interview with Star Trek The Next Generation star Patrick Stewart and here are few excerpts of the article.
Stewart believes it was his years at Stratford that prepared him for the Captain Picard role. "One of the reasons I was so successful as Jean Luc Picard was because it wasn't ER, it wasn't LAPD, it wasn't The Wire or Raising The Dead. It wasn't naturalistic and it was heightened. It was science-fiction, space, set in the future. The actors wear funny costumes. I said to people, 'Look, it's because I have spent all the years I have spent sitting on different thrones of England and playing all these generals, princes and kings that I can do this.' It's absolutely true. I knew how to sit in that chair, I knew how to command that bridge. I knew how to talk to f****** aliens."
A homesick Stewart knew that his return to England and his beloved Stratford in 2003 would prove as controversial in some quarters as his exploits in space.
"The first thing I did when I got back to Stratford was Antony and Cleopatra, and I remember waiting to go out on the press night knowing that I was in a wonderful production, but also thinking that I had to prepare myself for a response which might not be supportive. Basically, 'Who the hell does he think he is? Coming back after 17 years in California working in the movies, working in television, making all this money and now coming back and acting Shakespeare. No way! You need to put some time in son before you do this... But thankfully, I felt a warmth and a sense of welcome when I came back."
http://trekweb.com/articles/2008/11/...c-Picard.shtml
Stewart believes it was his years at Stratford that prepared him for the Captain Picard role. "One of the reasons I was so successful as Jean Luc Picard was because it wasn't ER, it wasn't LAPD, it wasn't The Wire or Raising The Dead. It wasn't naturalistic and it was heightened. It was science-fiction, space, set in the future. The actors wear funny costumes. I said to people, 'Look, it's because I have spent all the years I have spent sitting on different thrones of England and playing all these generals, princes and kings that I can do this.' It's absolutely true. I knew how to sit in that chair, I knew how to command that bridge. I knew how to talk to f****** aliens."
A homesick Stewart knew that his return to England and his beloved Stratford in 2003 would prove as controversial in some quarters as his exploits in space.
"The first thing I did when I got back to Stratford was Antony and Cleopatra, and I remember waiting to go out on the press night knowing that I was in a wonderful production, but also thinking that I had to prepare myself for a response which might not be supportive. Basically, 'Who the hell does he think he is? Coming back after 17 years in California working in the movies, working in television, making all this money and now coming back and acting Shakespeare. No way! You need to put some time in son before you do this... But thankfully, I felt a warmth and a sense of welcome when I came back."
http://trekweb.com/articles/2008/11/...c-Picard.shtml
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