Patrick Stewart actually had little faith in the success of Star Trek: The Next Generation that he didn’t bother unpacking most of his stuff. Patrick Stewart had previously known very little of the original show.
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Fun Fact: When People Doubted Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation
When the Los Angeles Times was writing about Star Trek: The Next Generation they described Patrick Stewart as an “unknown British Shakespearean actor.” Gene Roddenberry actually wanted somebody else in the rols originally as he imagined Jean-Luc Picard with a full head of hair and younger.
Fun Fact: Two X-Men Actors Who Didn’t Know How To Play Chess
In the original X-Men movie, Charles Xavier and Magneto have a chess match. Both actors didn’t know how to play chess so a Chessmaster was hired to make sure they were making the right moves.
Things I Like: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022 Film)
My wife and I saw the movie on Sunday. The first Doctor Strange movie was actually one of my least favorite films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But the Multiverse of Madness was definitely teasing more of the fun that we had with Spider-Man: No Way Home. The film starts out with American Chavez running…
Fun Fact: How Patrick Stewart Got The Role as Charles Xavier
While Marvel fans know Patrick Stewart for his role as Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, the actor admitted he was not a comic book reader himself. Before he took the role, he had no idea the character existed. Someone had shown him a cover of an X-Men comic which had Charles Xavier in the…