There are several roles that Sir Patrick Stewart has completely owned on screen – most notably Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its recent continuation Star Trek: Picard, and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men movies. But beyond his beloved genre work, there’s plenty more to the legendary British thespian – and in an extended Empire Podcast interview, Chris Hewitt delves into the actor’s non-Starfleet, non-mutant career.
Along the way, Stewart speaks about his love of Shakespeare as he continues his lockdown project of delivering the Bard’s sonnets in YouTube readings, opens up about witnessing fellow actors suffering from severe stage fright, and talks about his worst ever birthday. Plus, he talks his new movie Life With Music – also known as Coda in some territories – a drama which sees him playing a concert pianist whose latter career is plagued by performance anxiety. Listen to the full interview below.
Listen to the full Empire Podcast episode featuring the Patrick Stewart interview here.
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