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Jean Luc Picard in “Star Trek: Picard”Paramount+
Patrick Stewart said on “The Late Late Show” that he didn’t think he would be on “Star Trek” for long.
He said his agent told him that “Star Trek: The Next Generation” would only run for six months.
Instead, the series ran for seven seasons and Stewart appeared on his own spin-off show.
“Star Trek” legend Sir Patrick Stewart said he originally thought he would play Jean-Luc Picard for six months when he took on the role.
Stewart has played the character in numerous series and films over 35 years, starting with the 1987 series “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
Since 2020, the 82-year-old actor has also been playing its own spin-off starring a much older Picard, who has just aired its final season.
While appearing on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” on Wednesday, Stewart said he wasn’t keen on starring “The Next Generation” because he had to sign a six-year contract.
“I couldn’t accept what I had accepted,” Steward said. “I had one or two connections on TV and I was like, ‘What do I do? I just found out I had to sign a six-year contract.’ There was a list of plays I had to do. Shakespeare lined up and I said, ‘I can’t do this.'”
The English actor continued: “My agent said, ‘Look, you know you can’t revive an iconic show. You can’t. It’s not going to work, so just come here. Do a dozen episodes, maybe less, and make some money for the first time in your life and go home.’ That was the forecast for me – six months, no more.”
During an appearance on “The Graham Norton Show” in 2020the “X-Men” star said he would turn down the chance to reprise his “Star Trek” role in “Picard” because he had said publicly that he would not be returning as the character.
“I took the meeting… very eminent people, and I didn’t want to just say, ‘No, pass.’ I don’t do that anymore. So I went to the meeting to personally explain to them why I couldn’t do it… and then,” Stewart said, suggesting they could convince him to change his mind.
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ON “The Late Late Show,” Stewart said that after he became famous for playing a starship captain, actual plane captains started inviting him into the cockpit on flights.
“In the beginning I was constantly invited to the cockpit as soon as the plane was airborne and flying,” said Stewart. “Once I was in the driver’s seat and you’re not going to believe this… I was in the cockpit of the Concorde and what I did was press the two middle buttons of the four buttons that put the engines in supersonic mode. brought.” .”
The British Airways Concorde is a Franco-British supersonic aircraft of the 20th century.
All three seasons of “Star Trek: Picard” are available to stream on Paramount+.
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