Star Trek - Sir Patrick Stewart/Cpt Jean-Luc Picard #2: There's something about a man in uniform - Page 3

**crazy_diamond** · 08-03-2010, 12:06 PM

nice action one

***Chris*** · 08-04-2010, 01:59 PM

I like how his face is clearly visable through the smoke.

**crazy_diamond** · 08-05-2010, 03:22 AM

and here comes the hero

***Chris*** · 08-11-2010, 03:32 AM

Jean Luc to save teh day!!

**crazy_diamond** · 08-11-2010, 12:15 PM

oh yeah

***Chris*** · 08-12-2010, 11:03 AM

It would have been nice to see him in action more often.

**crazy_diamond** · 08-12-2010, 12:46 PM

yep

, I loved the eppy 'Starship Mine' when Picard when and saved the ship..

***Chris*** · 08-15-2010, 05:44 AM

That's a good one.

I think my least favourite Picard centered episode is the one where he's back on Earth visiting his family at the vineyards. I can't remember the title right now.

**crazy_diamond** · 08-15-2010, 11:39 AM

Called 'Family' I think

Yeah wasn't that crazy on that one either..

***Chris*** · 08-15-2010, 05:23 PM

That sounds right.

TrekWeb.com - Patrick Stewart Says He Does Not Know Why He was Cast as Captain Picard in Next Generation

Quote:

Deadline Hollywood: You were knighted in June. How did this all go down?

Sir Patrick Stewart: I received a letter, and when I opened it there was shock and utter disbelief. It wasn't what I was expecting at all. People have been saying this could happen to me for several years, but they're not the kind of things I listened to. From the time I was much younger, I'd followed those actors who were similarly honored, like Sir Michael Redgrave, Sir Ian McKellan. I never anticipated someday being able to join those ranks. It's a terrific honor and I take it as one bestowed on my profession and my associations. I am very proud and very humbled by it.

DH: I suppose that by comparison, an Emmy nomination is pretty modest stuff. You've received three of those before.

SPS: It is not something I take lightly at all. It's an extraordinary distinction, particularly for playing a supporting player in a Shakespearean play. That doesn't happen to many actors on television. I feel it's an immense honor to the Royal Shakespeare Company and to those of us who form Shakespearean projects in Britain. The realization of a nomination is just thrilling.

DH: You never were nominated for your captain's role on Star Trek: The Next Generation. On the other hand, I'm the critic who said at the time the show premiered in 1987, "What are these people thinking, casting some bald-headed British guy?"

SPS: You wrote that?

DH: Well, um...

SPS: It echoed my own feelings at the time as well. Why would they cast a middle-aged bald English Shakespearean actor in this iconic role as captain of the Enterprise? It made no sense. But I guess Gene Roddenberry had some sort of instinct for it, and his producer Rick Berman was a champion of mine. Even so, it all felt borderline lunatic back then. It took me a good while to grow comfortable in that role. I know that my experience with classic Shakespeare was a great help to me in finding this heightened language that was larger than life and utterly epic.

The full interview is here.

**crazy_diamond** · 08-16-2010, 04:41 AM

Patrick because you are good

Thanks for the article

***Chris*** · 08-16-2010, 01:06 PM

I like that he recognizes just being nominated as an honour.

**crazy_diamond** · 08-17-2010, 03:26 AM

me to

, good to hear

***Chris*** · 08-19-2010, 04:34 AM

I wonder if anybody was with Patrick when he opened the letter about the knighthood? I wonder who was the first person he called to share the news?

**crazy_diamond** · 08-19-2010, 12:21 PM

I suspect probably the rest of his family, the his trek buddies..

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