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Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, and, Brent Spiner worked alongside in the iconic 1987 seriesStar Trek: The Next Generation.With Stewart reprising his role of Jean-Luc Picard, and Spiner and Frakes portraying William T. Raker and Data/Lore respectively, the trio had their fair share of good time on the sets.
However, it wasn’t always a good time for the cast. While shooting the first season of the 1987 show, Sir Patrick Stewart apparently walked off the set because he was laughed at! Sharing the story in his memoir, Stewart revealed that all was in good nature and that he too had a lesson to learn from it.
When Sir Patrick Stewart Became Furious
Back in 1987, theX-Menactor had made himself famous by portraying the role of Captain Picard in theStar Trekfranchise. With the inception ofThe Next Generation,the actor got into his serious role and wanted to give the series his utmost dedication.
Things took a turn for the worse, however, whenPatrick Stewart’sco-stars started goofing around on the sets of the series. From multiple retakes to ad-libbing the script to make it more funny, Stewart did not like the unseriousness of the people at all.
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Since the actor was a part of the Royal Shakespearean Company, he hadn’t seen this much goofing around on set. While writing in his memoir titledMaking It So: A Memoir(viaThe Hollywood Reporter), the actor talked about how he got a little angry at his castmates.
My castmates doubled over in laughter when they flubbed multiple takes and, in rehearsals, they sometimes ad-libbed things that weren’t in the script to make their lines funnier
He further continued,
That’s when I called that meeting in which I lectured the cast for goofing off and responded to Denise Crosby’s, ‘We’ve got to have some fun sometimes, Patrick,’ comment by saying, ‘We are not here, Denise, to have fun.’
Expecting that the people would understand the intensity of the situation, Sir Patrick Stewart was both surprised and humiliated when the cast started laughing! Not taking his words seriously, Stewart himself writes that he didn’t handle the embarrassment well.
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As the excerpt continued, theMacbethactor further wrote about how he felt that he had lost the respect of his cast mates. With no one taking him seriously, Sir Patrick Stewart had no choice but to storm off from the meeting and slam his trailer door.
Sir Patrick Stewart Stormed Off And Slammed His Trailer Door
Although the humiliating feeling of getting laughed at was too overbearing for the actor at that moment, Patrick Stewart is chill with it now. In his memoir, the actor mentioned that even though it was not a good day for him, he and the rest of the cast still laugh about it to this day.
Facing some disrespect from his castmates, theLoganactor left the conference room in a sulking mood, went to his trailer, and slammed the door in anger.
In retrospect, everyone, me included, finds this story hilarious. But, in the moment, when the cast erupted in hysterics at my pompous declaration, I didn’t handle it well. I didn’t enjoy being laughed at. I stormed off the set and into my trailer, slamming the door.
The actor further wrote that it was at this moment whenJonathan Frakesand Brent Spiner knocked on his door to talk to him.
[Brent Spiner said to me] Everything’s okay. People respect you, but I think you misjudged the situation here. I had failed to read the room, imposing RSC behavior on people accustomed to the ways of episodic television — which was, after all, what we were shooting.
After a while, Patrick Stewart got a hang of things about how different people act alongside their iconic skills. Over the course of the series, the actor acknowledged that the cast should be allowed to goof around and he even joined in the fun later on!
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Star Trek: The Next Generationran for 7 seasons with the finale released in 1994. The iconic television series received a rating of 8.7/10 on IMDB and a whopping 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.The series is available to stream on Paramount+ in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
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