Stewart: 'I was miscast in Star Trek'

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Taylor

2010-08-13 20:03:23 UTC

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Stewart: 'I was miscast in Star Trek'
Friday, August 13 2010, 10:38am EDT
By Morgan Jeffery
Patrick Stewart has admitted that he thought he was miscast in Star
Trek: The Next Generation.
The actor played Jean-Luc Picard on the sci-fi series between 1987 and
1994 and later reprised the role in several spinoff films.
He told Deadline: "Why would they cast a middle-aged bald English
Shakespearean actor in this iconic role as captain of the Enterprise?
It made no sense."
Stewart explained that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry had insisted
that he take the role.
"I guess Gene... had some sort of instinct for it, and his producer
Rick Berman was a champion of mine," he said. "Even so, it all felt
borderline lunatic back then. It took me a good while to grow
comfortable in that role."
The X-Men star recently received an Emmy nomination for his role in a
TV adaptation of Hamlet.

The ST: TNG reunion on 'Family Guy' was funny. Oddly enough, Stewart's
show... not so much.

Obveeus

2010-08-13 20:37:28 UTC

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Patrick Stewart has admitted that he thought he was miscast in Star
Trek: The Next Generation.
He told Deadline: "Why would they cast a middle-aged bald English
Shakespearean actor in this iconic role as captain of the Enterprise?
It made no sense."

Perhaps they wanted to give an impression that Earth wouldn't build the
greatest piece of technology known to mankind simply so that some guy could
tool around the galaxy using it to try and get laid?

John Hall

2010-08-14 09:21:26 UTC

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Post by Obveeus

:)

I thought that the only part that didn't make sense was that he was
supposed to be French.

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Obveeus

2010-08-14 17:25:40 UTC

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Post by Obveeus

:)
I thought that the only part that didn't make sense was that he was
supposed to be French.

People complain about the accent, but really, how do we know what french
people will sound like hundred of years in the future and after another
world war destroys nearly all of humanity? At least Piccard sounded
authoritative.

Tony Harding

2010-08-15 14:48:25 UTC

:)
I thought that the only part that didn't make sense was that he was
supposed to be French.

"Make it so, No. 2" :)

TBerk

2010-08-14 17:58:36 UTC

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Post by Obveeus

:)
I thought that the only part that didn't make sense was that he was
supposed to be French.
--
John Hall

Yeah, you can resolve that if you factor in WWIII and the later
conflicts that have been mentioned happening prior to TOS. A mass
migrations of ex-pat Britons into France would trudge along a critical
mass of English speaking communities.

Another way to look at it is int he future English might be a very
universal language amongst Earthlings, the French Peoples English
would therefore be more English'.

TBerk

Anim8rFSK

2010-08-14 20:03:16 UTC

In article

:)
I thought that the only part that didn't make sense was that he was
supposed to be French.
--
John Hall

Yeah, you can resolve that if you factor in WWIII and the later
conflicts that have been mentioned happening prior to TOS. A mass
migrations of ex-pat Britons into France would trudge along a critical
mass of English speaking communities.
Another way to look at it is int he future English might be a very
universal language amongst Earthlings, the French Peoples English
would therefore be more English'.
TBerk

They did that horrible episode with Picard and 1/4 of the Mamas and the
Papas sitting in front of a dreadful backdrop, pretending it was an
outdoor cafe in Paris. Did those people speak with an atrocious accent?

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Brian Thorn

2010-08-14 21:43:18 UTC

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They did that horrible episode with Picard and 1/4 of the Mamas and the
Papas sitting in front of a dreadful backdrop, pretending it was an
outdoor cafe in Paris.

Technically, it was a Holodeck Paris, not the real thing.

Brian

Anim8rFSK

2010-08-15 02:15:30 UTC

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Post by Anim8rFSK
They did that horrible episode with Picard and 1/4 of the Mamas and the
Papas sitting in front of a dreadful backdrop, pretending it was an
outdoor cafe in Paris.

Technically, it was a Holodeck Paris, not the real thing.
Brian

Ah. So did they holospeack with an atrocious accent?

Hunter (Hunter)

2010-08-18 13:07:42 UTC

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On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:21:26 +0100, John Hall

Post by John Hall

Post by Obveeus

:)
I thought that the only part that didn't make sense was that he was
supposed to be French.

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The character was born in France but partly raised and educated in
England. You have that today never mind 400 years from now. You have
say guys from India born and raised but educated in Eaton and Oxford
and they learn near perfect British upperclass English so it wasn't at
all unbeliveable to me at the time. Also we were supposed to be a
United Planet by then so having an English guy wasn't jarring to me.
Not everyone had to be American to command a starship, not even the
Enterprise.

------>Hunter

"No man in the wrong can stand up against
a fellow that's in the right and keeps on acomin'."

-----William J. McDonald
Captain, Texas Rangers from 1891 to 1907