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TV series: Patrick Stewart: Ian McKellen advised me against Star Trek

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Patrick Stewart: Ian McKellen advised me against Star Trek

Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart has released his memoirs. photo

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When Patrick Stewart was offered the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the mid-80s, his friend and colleague Ian McKellen didn’t like it at all…

The British actor Patrick Stewart (83) likes to remind his long-time friend Ian McKellen (84) that he wanted to stop him from the “Star Trek” role. “When I told him I wanted to sign the contract, he almost physically stopped me,” Stewart writes in his new memoir “Making It So,” quoted by US magazine “Insider.”

When he was offered the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the mid-80s, he and McKellen had already made a name for themselves on the theater stage. At the time, his colleague vehemently wanted to stop him from the role and said that Stewart had “too much important theater work to do,” Stewart remembers. When he decided to take the role in “Star Trek,” McKellen “sadly shook his head as if I were enlisting in the army,” says Stewart.

“Over the past few years we have become good friends and X-Men colleagues and Ian has admitted that he was in the wrong and I was in the right,” said Stewart. “More than once, to be exact – mostly because I like making him say those words.” Stewart’s memoir “Making It So” was available in English on Tuesday.