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Patrick Stewart Annoyed by Star Trek Association

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By GustavoLeao / 16:51, 2 April 2006 / People

In a recent interview to the Radio Times, Star Trek The Next Generation star Patrick Stewart talks about his new series Eleventh Hour and his return to England. Here is an excerpt.

Q : Is it annoying that everyone still thinks of you as the bloke from Star Trek ?

Stewart : Yeah, very much so. I have often been irritated when I have been identified as an English actor exclusively know as Jean-Luc Picard, as though the rest of my life didn't exist at all. It continues to irritate now when I'm introduced as "Star Trek's Patrick Stewart". But let me be clear about it, it's not because I'm in any way uncomfortable about the work we did - I'm very proud of the television series and I'm proud that it will go on entertaining people for the rest of my life.

Read the full interview here.



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No, it's cool, I expect this from some actors, and it's acceptable | Report this post to moderator
By: Schpock (Odo's file, contact) @ 20:36:19 on Apr 02, 2006

As I was highlighting in my response to Cymro below, an actor in the position that Stewart is in has many things to consider. Typecasting can be detrimental to the advancement of one's career. This allows him to ask for a higher figure when he's asked to appear in something that might prevent him from accepting a role in a different genre or niche, or even in a general release that doesn't exemplify anything from Star Trek. I hope he was paid well for NEMESIS. And if he were asked to do yet another TNG film, I would expect that he would ask for land rights on the moon as well.

He's had a very good career and it's really fun to see him in other things, like the villain in Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson, X-Men, and the FOX cartoon American Dad.

Even though I first became aware of him on TNG, I don't automatically associate him with Star Trek in the same way I do with Shatner and Nimoy. Those guys, as great as I think they are, didn't do a hell of a lot after Trek, unless you count T.J. Hooker into account. Both have written books though, which goes a long way toward distinguising oneself from their onscreen persona/persoanae.

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To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big 'thing.' This is truth, to me.

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