3/27/2023 0 Comments The joke behind oh my star tek![]() He was going someone somewhat unlikable at the very beginning of Star Trek: Picard. Later in the same chat, Stewart talked about how he knew the character of Picard was very important to many people and this factored into why he wanted to inject some humor: And “Tea, Earl Grey, decaf” was my idea because I thought it was time to have some jokes with the character. Like we had one of the other characters reading a very famous Asimov book, and as Jean-Luc Picard I said, “You know, I can never really get into science fiction, it didn’t mean anything to me.” To have Captain Picard talking about science fiction as though it was an alien concept, was something I really enjoyed. I wish I could have recorded every moment that I sat with our writers.īut the only things that I think I actually contributed in terms of dialog were jokes. And I would go, “Oh, no, no!” That was wonderful. Although as an executive producer, I was allowed into the writers’ room, but I would just sit there with my mouth open listening to these great ideas that would flash backwards and forwards across the table, and then be thrown out the window. Stewart also talked about how he offered some of these character insights in the writers’ room: There was so much already at work within me. I didn’t have to sit and brood about what kind of breakfast I had before as that character before I went on the set. After a while, there was no place that I could identify where Jean-Luc left off and Patrick Stewart began. In a Variety Actors on Actors discussion with The Witcher’s Henry Cavill, Stewart said this new role gave him a “hand in the directive of where the narrative would go and being able to contribute personal private feelings about the character.” The actor also talked about how he became to fully understand the character over his time with the franchise:ĭuring the seven years that we filmed Next Generation and the four feature films that followed it, without intending to, Picard came closer and closer and closer to me, to Patrick. It is horrifying, so we have to look at this world and ask ourselves, “What can we do to make it better?” And that was always the theme of Next Generation and yet, in a different context, it’s also the theme of Picard.īecoming closer and closer to Picard, and ready to have fun with himĪnother new thing for Stewart with Picard was his role as an executive producer of the show. African American people, women, young teenagers, old men. My wife showed me some videos on her phone of some of the violence aimed by police at protesters. It was something that had never been a part of previous Star Trek.īut here’s the other thing. I think I did have a conversation with Michael about this use of language and how comfortable were we with it. Every other word was a swear word, and yet when I read… it might have been the F-word that I read and I was shocked and unsettled by it. I grew up in a family where swearing was second nature. When I came across the first swear word in the first script, I can honestly tell you, I was deeply shocked. Even if he wanted to say, “Damn, blast,” or whatever, he would, for the most part, manage to deny himself that pleasure. I think that Picard had actually taken an active decision not to abuse language that would be unpleasant for people to hear whether it is abusive or offensive in some way, and he stuck to it. ![]() Stewart recalls his initial reaction to the swearing to TV Guide: And it turns out that the star felt the same way, at first. One of the more controversial elements of the first season of Star Trek: Picard was the use of profanity on the show. Shocked by the swearing, but understands the world is changing ![]() ![]() We have gathered together some of the highlights. Sir Patrick Stewart has done another round of interviews in support of the FYC Emmy campaign for Star Trek: Picard. ![]()
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