{"id":45388,"date":"2017-02-23T13:49:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=45388"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:50:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:50:24","slug":"mckellan-to-stewart-dont-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/02\/mckellan-to-stewart-dont-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"McKellan To Stewart: Don&#8217;t Do It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fortunate for Trek fans that when <strong>Patrick Stewart<\/strong>&#8216;s buddy <strong>Ian McKellan<\/strong> gave him advice regarding a role on a new <em>Star Trek<\/em> series, Stewart didn&#8217;t take that advice.<\/p>\n<p>McKellan explained what had happened. &#8220;[Stewart] told me he&#8217;d been asked to sign up for seven years to <em>Star Trek<\/em> and I said, &#8216;don&#8217;t do it. You are a serious actor and you have a wonderful career in London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s where you belong and stay with the audience you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Stewart &#8220;paid no attention to me whatsoever and it changed his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sorry I gave you the wrong advice,&#8221; said McKellan to Stewart. And I am glad you didn&#8217;t take it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So are <em>The Next Generation<\/em> fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fortunate for Trek fans that when Patrick Stewart&#8216;s buddy Ian McKellan gave him advice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[6200,2440],"class_list":["post-45388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-mckellan","tag-stewart"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/McKellanStewart022317.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/McKellanStewart022317-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/McKellanStewart022317.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/McKellanStewart022317.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/McKellanStewart022317.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/McKellanStewart022317.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/McKellanStewart022317.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/McKellanStewart022317.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/McKellanStewart022317.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/McKellanStewart022317.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45388","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=45388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45390,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45388\/revisions\/45390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}