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The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio Edit Unfollow Patrick Stewart: 'I asked to play Ophelia in McKellen's Hamlet – but the timings didn't work out' by Mark Lawson Mar 2, 2022 As he beams aboard another Star Trek adventure, the 81-year-old actor talks about playing Picard as a intergalactic Prospero, hitting the bottle during Macbeth – and reaching page 310 of his memoir Patrick Stewart is slightly surprised to be talking about the impending second series of Star Trek: Picard, during a break from shooting the third in California. The reason is that he so firmly turned down the first season. After playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard, 24th-century hero of Starfleet, in 176 TV episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and four spin-off movies, Stewart was convinced that “I’d done everything I could with Picard and Star Trek”. But the producers – Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind), Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys), Kirsten Beyer (Star Trek: Discovery), Alex Kurtzman (The Mummy) – persisted. And Stewart “took a look at the names, and there were Academy ward and Pulitzer prize winners. So I thought the most courteous thing to do would be to have a meeting to tell them face to face why I was going to turn them down.” Continue reading... Continue Reading

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