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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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RE: Feeling is mutual | Report this post to moderator
By: c.p. (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:29:54 on Apr 04, 2006

Except that your friends, I'm assuming, were embarrassed about the work he did on the show--the product-- as well as his association with a middle brow science fiction tv show. But Stewart goes out of his way here to say he's not embarrassed to be associated with TNG or Star Trek in general. And starring in X-Mens 1-3 would hardly be the way to demonstrate a new found disrespect for pop sci-fi. Instead he's saying he's "annoyed" that the fame TNG brought him overshadows his previous work and taints the work he's done since.

At any rate, I think it's worth noting that in other interviews he admits that Star Trek has afforded him opportunities he never would have had otherwise. He's a moody artist who's incapable of being satisfied with what fate has handed him. As long as he never turns Brando and denounces what was a wonderful, bright tv show, then I'll respect the fact that it's also a catch 22 for him.

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