Lunch With Patrick Stewart

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-03-12 07:22am

Is what I indulged in yesterday.

Our English Language tutor took us (myself and a friend) along to Huddersfield University, where Patrick was being initiated as the new Chancellor (it being his home town etc)

We sat down for lunch and he came around all of the tables, briefly stopping at ours long enough for me to have a couple of photographs taken with him, chat a little about X-Men 3 and some other things. He's a nice guy.

Will have to get those pics digitised and online very soon. Anyone else had to opportunity to meet ol' picard?

(Shame, I didn't get a chance to mention trek to him- but im sure he prefers that)

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-12 07:36am

Jon wrote:Is what I indulged in yesterday.

Our English Language tutor took us (myself and a friend) along to Huddersfield University, where Patrick was being initiated as the new Chancellor (it being his home town etc)

We sat down for lunch and he came around all of the tables, briefly stopping at ours long enough for me to have a couple of photographs taken with him, chat a little about X-Men 3 and some other things. He's a nice guy.

Will have to get those pics digitised and online very soon. Anyone else had to opportunity to meet ol' picard?

(Shame, I didn't get a chance to mention trek to him- but im sure he prefers that)

I look forward to see those pics.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-12 07:40am

Jon wrote:Will have to get those pics digitised and online very soon. Anyone else had to opportunity to meet ol' picard?

Kind of. He came down to Melbourne to do his Ahab flick, and a convention organisation snagged the opportunity to have him visit a special screening of First Contact. The film was shown first and then he would enter the cinema and take questions from the audience.

My mother was keen to go, as she loves ol' chrome dome (he is pretty sexy to be honest). However someone at HS had his mother pass away that weekend, and he happened to be a friend of one of my friends, who asked me if he could come along. My mother, who took us into the city where the film was going to be screened, graciously gave up her ticket for the kid.

But because she knew I would be going with friends she had purchased the tickets in such a way that 1 of them (which would have been hers) would be separate from the other 4 (which would have been me and my friends). So what ended up happening is I had to take the sole seat while my friends entertained the other guy who wasn't my friend.

Not content with sitting by myself I went over to the other guys as there were some spare seating over that way. Unfortunately, my previous seat was virtually right next to the second passageway that leads out of the cinema (there's usually two in every cinema running along the sides) - and guess which passageway the good captain decided to enter through? Ugh. What's worse is that I'm shortsighted (in more ways than one), and I didn't bring my glasses with me, so Patrick Stewart was at the front of the cinema with a mike and so on and to me he was a blur. UGH!

I still kick myself. My mother was fortunate though, since she was out in the lobby at the time Patrick either entered the cinema or left (probably the latter, since I refuse to believe my mother spent 3 hours in the cinema's lobby). She saw him close up, while to me he was a blur.

In any case Patrick was cool. He answered geeky questions, serious questions, non-ST questions with equal grace and charm. He also said he liked the Enterprise-E the best 'cause it was cooler, and he likened the Enterprise-D with a "shabby Hilton."

The coolest thing he's ever said.

(Shame, I didn't get a chance to mention trek to him- but im sure he prefers that)

Probably. While he was good at the particular evening I'm sure he's become sick of ST now. I don't blame him. After such lacklustre movies and with slipping ratings Pat probably thinks the franchise could use a bit of a rest, though in interviews he seemed to earnestly believe Nemesis was excellent (so did Brent Spiner, now that I think about it...).

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2004-03-12 07:55am

Stofsk wrote:
In any case Patrick was cool. He answered geeky questions, serious questions, non-ST questions with equal grace and charm. He also said he liked the Enterprise-E the best 'cause it was cooler, and he likened the Enterprise-D with a "shabby Hilton." The coolest thing he's ever said.

At least this Shabby Hilton had better lighting...

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-03-12 12:42pm

Stofsk wrote:... Pat probably thinks the franchise could use a bit of a rest, though in interviews he seemed to earnestly believe Nemesis was excellent (so did Brent Spiner, now that I think about it...).

Of course. Picard and Data were the two characters around which the film's "twisted clone" lame-excuse-for-a-plot revolved.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-03-12 12:47pm

Mention to Trek to Stewart and be sure to be wearing some body armour. He has fans follow him to his Westend plays wearing Trek costumes and asking for his autograph as Capt. Picard.

It's the same with Alec Guinness and Star Wars. He hated people that only brought up a role that was peanuts to him.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-03-12 01:28pm

You should have mentioned Kill Bill to him. He would have loved that.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-03-12 02:48pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Mention to Trek to Stewart and be sure to be wearing some body armour. He has fans follow him to his Westend plays wearing Trek costumes and asking for his autograph as Capt. Picard.

You should have seen him on The Daily Show when Jon Stewart brought it up. He threw his head back in disgust and started snoring.

It's the same with Alec Guinness and Star Wars. He hated people that only brought up a role that was peanuts to him.

Well in Stewart's case, he spent most of his carrer as a TV/Film actor as Captain Picard; it wasn't a minor part of his career the way it was with Guinness.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-03-12 02:48pm

LOL, yeah didn't he just moan out about violence? Vapourising people in Photon Torpedo explosions and maximum phaser blasts mustn't be that bad.

Comosicus, I have to wait for a reporter from the Manchester Evening News to email them to our college, but im sure they will arrive soon. in the meantime i'll ask my pal to scan a few of the 35mm on that we took.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-03-12 07:01pm

You guys remember that tour of the TNG set the "Today Show" did? Pat was supposed to be part of it, but when he saw the weatherman in one of the uniforms, he got pissed off and left. He said it was something about disrespecting the uniform or something like that in an interview.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-03-12 07:09pm

Wouldn't that have been ~10 years ago?

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2004-03-12 07:24pm

You should have asked him about the maximum yield of the Enterprise's phaser banks. I'm sure he'd love that!

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-03-12 07:51pm

You're forgetting where you're at. You have to ask him if the Federation could beat the Empire.

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2004-03-12 07:59pm

neoolong wrote:You're forgetting where you're at. You have to ask him if the Federation could beat the Empire.

How would Picard know anything about the Empire?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-03-12 08:08pm

I would love to see him do Shakespeare.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2004-03-12 08:12pm

Demiurge wrote:
neoolong wrote:You're forgetting where you're at. You have to ask him if the Federation could beat the Empire.
How would Picard know anything about the Empire?

400-year-old VHS tapes?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-03-12 08:12pm

kojikun wrote:I would love to see him do Shakespeare.

Try and see one of his plays if you ever get to London or NYC one day, he may be on now he has more freetime.

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-03-12 08:13pm

Chances are he'd be able to crack off a famous monologue or two- most people who took university English can, and he is a Shakespearean actor.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-03-12 08:16pm

StarshipTitanic wrote:Wouldn't that have been ~10 years ago?

~93 iirc...

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-12 09:16pm

I remember him playing King Richard Lionheart in "Robin Hood - Men in Tights"

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-13 01:09am

Darth Wong wrote:
Stofsk wrote:... Pat probably thinks the franchise could use a bit of a rest, though in interviews he seemed to earnestly believe Nemesis was excellent (so did Brent Spiner, now that I think about it...).
Of course. Picard and Data were the two characters around which the film's "twisted clone" lame-excuse-for-a-plot revolved.

I guess I was just assuming they had to say "It's the best! Scout's honour!" due to contractual obligations - IE they have to promote the film, and not bag it. So, eh whatever.

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2004-03-13 01:19am

All of the TNG movies have focused almost completely on Picard and Data.

GEN: The Nexus/Emotion chip.
FC: Borg hatred/Borg Queen romance.
INS: Mid-life crisis/Dumb kid that asks questions.
NEM: Retarded clone/Retarded prototype.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-03-13 04:23am

I liked him in Dune, he played a good Gurney.

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