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For Sir Patrick Stewart<\/strong>, Twitter<\/em> helped to reshape fans’ perceptions of the actor’s personality.<\/p>\n People tended to think of the actor as a serious type, in part due to his Captain Picard and various Shakespeare roles.<\/p>\n “Somehow I’ve got stuck with these characters I play, and so an impression of who Patrick Stewart was was becoming fixed in my audience,” Stewart explained. He used his “own sense of fun on Twitter<\/em>” to change that impression.<\/p>\n But Stewart was wary of Twitter <\/em>at first. <\/em> “Tiptoeing was important to me,” he said, “but what appealed about Twitter<\/em> when I looked at the options was the element of connections.<\/p>\n “I did some research, looked at the things I found relevant and entertaining and I was very, very cautious.”<\/p>\n Being seen as something other than a serious person led to a role in a new comedy series by Family Guy<\/em>‘s Seth MacFarlane<\/strong>. Stewart is “very excited about” the new role.<\/p>\n In addition, Stewart uses Twitter<\/em> to drum up support for causes dear to his heart, such as Amnesty International, <\/em>and Shelter<\/em>. “[Twitter<\/em>] led me to understand the potential for social interaction and social change.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Sir Patrick Stewart, Twitter helped to reshape fans’ perceptions of the actor’s personality. People…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2440,3027],"class_list":["post-34583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-stewart","tag-twitter"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34589,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583\/revisions\/34589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}