Sir Patrick Stewart hated his acting in the first series of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’.
Sir Patrick Stewart hated his acting in the first series of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’
The 83-year-old played Captain Picard on the show from 1987 to 1994 and in its spin-off movies, and revealed when he watched himself back his portrayal of the space explorer didn’t feel “real” enough.
He says on Friday’s (20.10.23) ‘The Graham Norton Show’ about rewatching the episodes as research for his new memoir ‘Making it So’: “I watched two whole seasons of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, and I was very disappointed in my quality and nature of my work in the first series – it was not real enough. “It was very authoritarian and very commanding but was way too stentorian.
“It was my stage background, and it didn’t work.”
He added on the show about improving: “In the second series I was much better because I had been working with very good American actors.
“I watched what they did and played it with the same openness and freedom.”
Patrick appears on Friday’s ‘Graham Norton Show’ alongside guests including Ralph Fiennes and Dame Joan Collins.
Patrick also recently revealed going bald destroyed his early love life.
He totally lost his hair in his late teens and says girls his age when it happened didn’t want to date a boy with a “few bristles” on his head.
He told the ‘Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend’ podcast in a chat to promote his autobiography: “It wasn’t easy in my late teens to find that I was losing my hair. Losing my hair felt like a failure.
“And also, dating... who wants to go out with an 18-year-old who’s just got a few bristles?”
But Sir Patrick has said he recently found out his third wife Sunny Ozell, who is nearly 40 years his junior, was always attracted to bald men even in her teens.
He said: “As luck would have it, my wife and I had this conversation only a couple of days ago.
“She admitted to me that she had always been attracted to bald men, from her teenage years.
“I said, ‘Oh, at last! I now understand why you had the nerve to let me take you out.’”
He tells in his memoir ‘Make it So’ how he spent years trying to find a solution to regrow his hair when he started to lose it from the age of 17, before he went totally bald a year later.
The actor also told the Daily Mirror: “I was rapidly losing my hair, and I wanted to be able to pay for treatment at a hair clinic in Bristol.
“The more hair I lost, the more attention I paid to the clinic. Finally, one day, I screwed up the courage to walk in and have a chat with the people inside.”
At 17, Sir Patrick star got a job bricklaying so he could pay for a hair regrowth treatment he had seen advertised while walking to school.
But he admitted about how they failed to work: “I must have had three or four sessions, which involved the placing of electrode patches on my scalp, some massaging by hand, and the application of various creams.
“But it was hopeless. By the age of 19, I was as bald on top as I am now.”
‘The Graham Norton Show’ is on BBC One, Friday 20 October, at 10.40pm, and is available on BBC iPlayer.