{"id":8298,"date":"2010-01-29T12:38:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T20:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:38:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T20:38:05","slug":"sir-patrick-stewart-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/01\/sir-patrick-stewart-at-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Patrick Stewart At 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> led to projects Stewart wanted to do and to his knighthood.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart hasn&#8217;t done many films recently, but there is a reason for that, he is doing what he wants to do at the age of seventy. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been almost exclusively focusing on theater the last five years, because I have a lot of catching up to do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s all I ever wanted to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8299\" title=\"PStewartPicard012910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PStewartPicard012910.gif\" alt=\"PStewartPicard012910\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" \/>When he began his career, Stewart didn&#8217;t foresee anything but acting on the stage. &#8220;I had no ambition to work in television, I had no ambition to work in film, because it just seemed improbable and unlikely,&#8221; he said. &#8220;All I ever wanted to be was on the stage, because the stage was, well, quite crudely, the safest place to be. Far safer than the outside world. &#8230; Everything else that happened was an accident. A wonderful accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Would Stewart have been knighted had he not played Jean-Luc Picard on <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>? &#8220;It is a result,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because the cumulative result of <em>Star Trek<\/em> and the<em> X-Men<\/em> &#8230; when I went back to the U.K. after 15 years away, I went and did an Ibsen play [<em>The Master Builder<\/em>]. &#8230; Not a writer that fills theaters. What <em>Star Trek<\/em> did was to take me out of the world of being an elitist Shakespearean actor with a very small audience, and it put me on an international stage. &#8230; After the role ended, I was able to mount stage projects that I never would have been able to do before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart never resented being identified with the French captain. &#8220;No, I&#8217;m grateful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I did a one-man show that did quite well, A<em> Christmas Carol<\/em>. &#8230; We sold the first week on Broadway through the <em>Star Trek<\/em> fan clubs. That was the marketing! And they filled the place. It doesn&#8217;t matter why they come. &#8230; Ian and I, we shared a dressing room for seven months doing <em>Waiting for Godot<\/em>. I do think we&#8217;ve been significantly creating a new audience for live theater.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: The Next Generation led to projects Stewart wanted to do and to his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[2440],"class_list":["post-8298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-stewart"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"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\/8298","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=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8328,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}