Editing Patrick Stewart (section)

====''Star Trek: The Next Generation''====
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[[File:Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart.jpg|thumb|Stewart with ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek]]'' co-star [[Brent Spiner]] in 2010]]

When Stewart was picked for the role of Captain [[Jean-Luc Picard]] in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' (1987–1994), the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' called him an "unknown British Shakespearean actor". Still living out of his suitcase because of his scepticism that the show would succeed,<ref name="day20121226">{{cite news |url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/12/26/patrick-stewart-next-generation-x-men-and-hollywood-history/ |title=Patrick Stewart: 'Next Generation,' 'X-Men' and Hollywood history |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=4 November 2019|last=Day |first=Patrick Kevin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201220119/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/12/26/patrick-stewart-next-generation-x-men-and-hollywood-history/ |archive-date=1 February 2013 }}</ref> he was unprepared for the long schedule of television production<ref name="bbcstewart">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/stewart/printpage.html |title=Patrick Stewart – Jean Luc Picard, Captain of the Enterprise |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926232634/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/stewart/printpage.html |archive-date=26 September 2013}}</ref> that began at 4:45 am each day.{{r|brady19920405}} He initially experienced difficulty fitting in with his less-disciplined castmates. In interviews, he recalled with embarrassment a time when he scolded the main cast for being unprofessional in his opinion, by saying "We're not here... to have fun!"<ref>{{cite web |last1=McMillan |first1=Graeme |title=Patrick Stewart's rocky start on Star Trek: The Next Generation: "We are not here to have fun" |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/patrick-stewart-star-trek-the-next-generation-not-here-to-have-fun |website=Popverse |date=3 October 2023 |access-date=12 November 2023}}</ref>{{r|lyall20080127}} Furthermore, Stewart has stated that his "spirits used to sink" whenever he was required to memorise and recite [[technobabble]].{{r|bbcstewart}} He eventually came to better understand the cultural differences between the stage and television and relaxed to a degree at work,{{r|lyall20080127}} and his favourite technical line became "[[spacetime continuum]]".{{r|bbcstewart}} 

Stewart remained close friends with his fellow ''Star Trek'' actors{{r|lyall20080127}} and became their advocate with the producers when necessary.{{r|day20121226}} [[Marina Sirtis]] credited Stewart with "at least 50%, if not more" of the show's success because others imitated his professionalism and dedication to acting.<ref name="sirtis">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/sirtis/printpage.html |title=Marina Sirtis – Star Trek: The Next Generation's empathetic Counsellor |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 May 2011}}</ref> [[Jonathan Frakes]] said that, with some shows he'd been on, there were actors who showed up without having read the script, but Stewart had "set such a high bar for preparation. We all came to work in the morning completely prepared. We knew our lines and had broken down the script".<ref name="marsh20190124">{{cite web |last=Marsh |first=Calum |date=24 January 2019 |title=Star Trek Legend Jonathan Frakes on Life As an Actor's Director |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/star-trek-jonathan-frakes-director-interview.html |access-date=14 January 2023 |website=Vulture }}</ref>

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It really wasn't until the first season ended [when] I went to my first ''Star Trek'' convention ... [I] had expected that I would be standing in front of a few hundred people and found that there were two and a half thousand people and that they already knew more about me than I could ever possibly have believed. |source =Stewart, on when he realised he had become famous{{r|bbcstewart}} }}

Stewart unexpectedly became wealthy because of the show's success.{{r|appleyard20071104}} In 1992, during a break in filming, Stewart calculated that he earned more during that break than from ten weeks of ''Woolf'' in London.<ref name="brady19920405">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UlhPAAAAIBAJ&pg=5604%2C1577738 |title=In Step With: Patrick Stewart |work=Parade |date=5 April 1992 |access-date=28 April 2011 |last=Brady |first=James |page=21}}</ref> From 1994 to 2002, he also portrayed Picard in the films ''[[Star Trek Generations]]'' (1994), ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' (1996), ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]'' (1998) and ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' (2002); and in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''{{'}}s pilot episode "[[Emissary (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)|Emissary]]", and received a 1995 [[Screen Actors Guild]] Award nomination for "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series".

When asked in 2011 for the highlight of his career, he chose ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', because "it changed everything [for me]."<ref name="bbcfiveminutes">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13160867 |title=Five Minutes With: Patrick Stewart |work=BBC |date=23 April 2011 |access-date=2 June 2011 |page=1}}</ref> He has also said he is very proud of his work on ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' for its social messages and educational impact on young viewers. When questioned about his role's significance compared to his distinguished Shakespearean career, he said, "The fact is all of those years in Royal Shakespeare Company—playing all those kings, emperors, princes and tragic heroes—were nothing but preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/S/Stewart_Patrick/1997/08/17/pf-761995.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709150749/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/S/Stewart_Patrick/1997/08/17/pf-761995.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=9 July 2012 |title=Patrick Stewart at the controls |access-date=14 January 2008 |first=Tyler |last=McLeod |date=17 August 1997 |work=CANOE}}</ref> The accolades he has received include the readers of ''TV Guide'' in 1992 choosing him with [[Cindy Crawford]], of whom he had never heard, as television's "most bodacious" man and woman.<ref name="dn19920713">{{cite news |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/236846/BOLD-BALD-ACTOR-VOTED-TVS-MOST-BODACIOUS-MAN.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125212224/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/236846/BOLD-BALD-ACTOR-VOTED-TVS-MOST-BODACIOUS-MAN.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 November 2011 |title=Bold, Bald Actor Voted TV's Most Bodacious Man |work=Deseret News |date=13 July 1992 |access-date=7 May 2011 |location=Salt Lake City, Utah}}</ref><ref name="bbcfrakes">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/frakes/printpage.html |title=Jonathan Frakes – The Next Generation's Number One, Will Riker, and Trek director |publisher=BBC |access-date=7 May 2011}}</ref><ref name=ind20030630>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/patrick-stewart-the-spirit-of-enterprise-542354.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812055703/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/patrick-stewart-the-spirit-of-enterprise-542354.html |archive-date=12 August 2011 |work=The Independent |location=London |title=Patrick Stewart: The spirit of Enterprise |date=30 June 2003 |access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref> In an interview with [[Michael Parkinson]], he expressed gratitude for [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s response to a reporter who said, "Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century," to which Roddenberry replied, "In the 24th century, they wouldn't care."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17880 |title=mental_floss Blog " 3 Bald encounters on the set of Star Trek |work=Mentalfloss.com |date=25 August 2008 |access-date=2 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728173103/http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17880 |archive-date=28 July 2009}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/pXOK-ZVJMaU Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907142702/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaU Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaU |title=at 0:34 |website=Youtube |date=19 July 2007 |access-date=2 May 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

{{quote box|align=right|salign=right|style=width:40%|"It came to a point where I had no idea where Picard began and I ended. We completely overlapped. His voice became my voice, and there were other elements of him that became me" ... No director in Hollywood wanted to cast this grand, deep-voiced, bald English guy because everybody knew he was Picard and couldn't possibly be anybody else. In the event, he effectively reprised the part as Professor Charles Xavier – a grand, deep-voiced, bald English guy – in the ''X-Men'' films.|source=– Interview, ''[[The Times]]''{{r|appleyard20071104}}}}

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On 4 August 2018, CBS and Stewart jointly announced that he would reprise his role as Jean-Luc Picard in a new ''Star Trek'' series. In a prepared statement, Stewart said he and the new show's producers would "endeavour to bring a fresh, unexpected and pertinent story to life once more."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2018/08/04/patrick-stewart-to-reprise-star-trek-role-in-new-series.html |title=Patrick Stewart to reprise 'Star Trek' role in new series |work=Toronto Star |date=4 August 2018 |access-date=5 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/08/05/patrick-stewart-returns-star-trek-ascaptain-jean-luc-picard/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/08/05/patrick-stewart-returns-star-trek-ascaptain-jean-luc-picard/ |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Patrick Stewart returns to Star Trek as Captain Jean-Luc Picard |date=5 August 2018 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=5 August 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref>