Patrick Stewart On Another ‘Star Trek’ Movie, Hitting The NYT Best Seller List With Memoir, ‘King Lear’ & Finding His Voice
deadline.com“Here’s the funny thing, I was talking to a director a few months ago, and I mentioned that I was I’ve been reading and thinking about King Lear, says Sir Patrick Stewart of his possible future career plans “And he said, Yes, yes, of course.
But, you know, Patrick, you’re a little too old. Okay. Well, that was something of a shock.” What also is a shock to the 83-year-old Royal Shakespeare Company, X-Men and Star Trek alum is that the knight of the realm is now a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic just over a week after its October 3 release.
Fresh off a book tour of the United States and heading to the United Kingdom for more, Sir Patrick has seen his Making It So memoir hit #5 in Hardcover Nonfiction and #7 in Print and Ebook combined on the New York Times list.
Detailing the actor’s life from his working-class childhood in Northern England to the stages of London and Broadway and the deck of the USS Enterprise as iconic captain Jean-Luc Picard, the book proved both a challenge and a labor of “intense” love for Stewart.
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