This is probably my favorite story about the filming of TNG. He wanted to take it very seriously, his cast mates were all goofing around too much, and the end result landed somewhere in the middle, which I think served the show well in the end. Patrick Stewart elevated the show, and it might not have been so successful otherwise.
Patrick Stewart: Why I Stormed Off the Set of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’
Submitted 1 year ago by ValueSubtracted@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website
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The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Listening to Patrick Stewart say, with full frustration in his voice “we are not here to have FUN” would have made me laugh him out too. God I would have killed to have footage of that
aaaa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Would you settle for Brent Spiner doing his best Patrick Stewart about the situation?
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The footage is like to see would be Patrick Stewart seeing Galaxy Quest for the first time. Actually, I’d kill to have that as a commentary for the Blu-ray. Hell, give me all the casts’ first reactions.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I was not expecting the haunted house thing…
"After I moved out of the house,” he continued, “not because of the haunting — although it had become bothersome with noises, footsteps on stairs, voices in rooms that were empty and feelings of temperature changes and so forth.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 year ago
“I moved out. Not because of the haunting though. But it was bothersome.”
Definitely something I could hear him saying. Why didn’t he just put down his Earl Grey, look up from his leatherbound book, and say, “You’re being quiet bothersome!”? I think that would shut up anyone, ghost or not.
ptz@dubvee.org 1 year ago
I would love for MacFarlane to write that exact scene into American Dad. I feel it would work just as well for Avery as it would for P Stew.
HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Well I think I need to pick up this book, or at least the audiobook.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 1 year ago
If he does the narration, I would pick up the audiobook in a heartbeat.
simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 1 year ago
@The_Picard_Maneuver
@startrek.website @HumbleHoboHe does! 🙂🖖
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0C3VW4PVY?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 year ago
The article contains an audio excerpt of this very story.
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 year ago
Is there anyone else here that feels that Patrick Stewart is violating the spirit of the SAG-AFTRA strike with his book promoting interviews?
While it’s likely his publisher wanted a fall release for the Christmas gift market, it seems really inappropriate that he’s out pitching how he wanted his show to end (with his real life wife getting another voice credit) or stories about TNG behind the scenes.
SAG members have been constrained from talking about the franchise in convention panels, or promoting their new shows, but he’s out there selling his book based on his career in the IP and distracting from Lower Decks which needs all the boost it can get.
It’s not making me admire Stewart, and settled any question of buying his book for the negative.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 year ago
I can see the argument that it’s splitting hairs, but he’s promoting the book, not his acting work or Star Trek as a franchise.
dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Splitting hairs
Heh
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 1 year ago
In short, he became angry because he was used to theater acting and tried to hold a tv production to theater’s standards.
theodewere@kbin.social 1 year ago
he actually learns how to be a captain while playing the role, that's so awesome.. he gets a lecture from Number One and his Science Officer on human behavior, it's just hilarious and beautiful, i'm dying here..
Rayspekt@kbin.social 1 year ago
I wonder if Frakes was doing the Riker pose while lecturing him.
1simpletailer@startrek.website 1 year ago
You’re right it is beautiful! Not to be that guy though, but Data is Ops, not Science.
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 year ago
There’s interviews with Frakes where he talks about stepping into the director’s role for a few episodes and quickly realizing that it was very difficult to do when the cast would goof off up until the word ACTION gets called.
So Stewart probably had a point, especially from production’s view.
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Neat.
Incidentally, Jonathan Frakes now directs fantastic episodes of television.
Many science fiction shows have had Jonathan Frakes direct just an episode or two, and they usually end up being favorites.
Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 1 year ago
It seems like a perfectly human mistake and an experience from which he learned.
magnetosphere@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yes. If he carried a grudge for years, that would make him a pompous ass. This, on the other hand, just sounds like someone making the adjustment from stage to screen.
I like that his fellow cast members felt like they could talk to him about it. That alone says quite a bit.