Ageing brings with it some problems but it also brings with it many. While Sir Ian last week revealed to The Mirror that he was going deaf, Sir Patrick insists he’s faring better against Old Father Time. Sir Patrick assures me, Sunny doesn’t mind. Indeed, the pair have one of the most famous bromances in Hollywood - constantly posting hillarious Twitpics and even enjoying a kiss at Sir Ian’s Mr Holmes premiere last year. “But we hung out a lot and found out that we had huge amounts of things in common.” “I’d known Ian back in the 70s but never well - and to be honest I was always a little intimidated by him. “On movies like that you spend more time sitting in your trailer waiting to work as opposed to being in front of the camera,” says Patrick. He’s careful to not to confirm which, but it’s no denying it’s the latest Wolverine film, the newest spin off from X Men franchise, during which he befriended his now famous BFF Sir Ian McKellen. Sir Patrick is calling the set of his latest big budget film. There’s 178 episodes - 178 hours of television - I remember some things but not much!” “And it’s just like watching it for the first time. “Sometimes I’m sitting in a hotel room somewhere and I’ll flip through the channels and it’ll be on. “Oh Lord no! Darling, it was 25 years ago!,” he says. Asked to name his favourite scenes, Sir Patrick practically guffaws. Sir Patrick has revived the character in some sense - having voiced Picard for sketches on cult comedies Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy and Seth Green’s Robot Chicken.īut remembering those days on the bridge is not as easy. There is a little bit of a negative aspect to it, but it was mostly for the better.and I would not change anything.” “Beforehand, if you didn’t occasionally switch over BBC2 you would never have heard of me at all. And yet it brought about an enormous change for me.
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“I was not looking to work in Hollywood, I was not looking to do an American TV series, I was certainly not looking to do science fiction because - this may come as a shock - I’ve never really had that much interest in science fiction. Is there then a part of this Shakespearean actor that wishes he’d never done it at all? But I really have no interest in reviving it at all.” After a beat, he adds: “And I’m happy to say I don’t have to because I have plenty of other work going on.” I love that people still come up to me and tell me how they used to watch it growing up. “I’m very, very proud of everything I did. I’m off to different and more diverse things.” But to bring back Jean-Luc Picard in retirement? To me, it would be a backwards step. The new Star Trek films with all the new actors are marvellous, I’ve enjoyed both those films enormously. “It makes me uncomfortable this resurrecting and remaking of earlier successes. I’m significantly older than when I last put on the captain’s uniform and I feel it would be inappropriate. He says: “It’s extremely unlikely - and anyway I’ve moved on. Now as Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary year, Sir Patrick dispels speculation he’ll revive Picard for a cameo - like Shatner and the late Nimoy - in the new film franchise. Since, he has constantly battled against type - leading to a diverse career where he mixed indie films, Shakespeare, Seth MacFarlane comedies and, of course, the X Men franchise. When the show ended, he was typecast, one producer even telling him: “You’re terrific.but why would I want Jean-Luc Picard in my picture?”. Sir Patrick was a star: the first Brit luvvie to boldy go where no Brit luvvie had gone before.īut success came at a cost. The show ran from 1987 to 1994, with 20 million viewers an episode, and spawned four spin off films.
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It was after David Lynch’s Dune, that the call came for TNG, the follow up to the original Star Trek series with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. Thanks to a schoolteacher, he fell in love with Shakespeare at an early age and after a scholarship to Bristol Old Vic, joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and became a regular on period TV dramas (as well as 1967 cameo in Coronation Street). Sir Patrick’s enthusiasm for the role has not always been so clear cut.īorn in 1940 in Mirfield, Yorkshire, he had a tough childhood in a one up, one down terrace house, with a former Army father - now believed to have had PTSD - who was violent towards his mother. “Sunny’s family have got to know most of them - and they adore them as much as I do.” All of us very, very close and we’re very fond of each other. I had dinner with Jonathan Frakes recently, LeVar Burton I see whenever I can. “She and her brother and her mother and father. “Her family watched every single episode every week,” he says. It gave him the perfect way to get in the good books with the in-laws - by introducing them to all his old castmates.
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