The actor Patrick Stewart is an icon of popular culture, internationally known for playing the Captain Picard from Star Trek. It debuted 35 years ago on American screens and since then it has had two series with a total of 208 episodes and 4 movies from the space franchise. And all this was possible because he was deceived.
Stewart has recalled how he received the offer to star in a new series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. If it had been up to him, the answer would have been negative because I didn’t want to leave the theater
“I remember coming home from the Royal Shakespeare after the matinee just in time to give them [a los niños] their dinner, read to them and put them to bed before going back to the evening performance,” Stewart recounted in Mirror. “And I’d find they were watching this thing on TV with these guys in colored T-shirts. And that’s all I remember.”
And what was it that made you change your mind? His friends and family encouraged him a lot, but in the end he was his agent who managed to set him up
My agent said, “Look, you know you can’t revive an iconic show. You can’t. It’s not going to work. So you come here, you do a dozen episodes, even less, you make some money for the first time in your life. .. and you go home.” That was his prediction: six months, no more.
It wasn’t six months and it wasn’t a failure. His agent got him into an affair that spanned from 1987 to 1994 over SEVEN seasons. And not content with that, two decades later he would return with the series Star Trek Picardas pointed out by our colleagues Espinof. became a world renowned icon and an immortal figure thanks to popular culture. And to think that he almost turned down the role…
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