Archive Footage -- Patrick Stewart, 1973

[Smellincoffee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hulHTH-3bc


While trying to find footage of Stewart reading or performing Shakespeare, I found this interview of him discussing variations in his performances in the 70's. It's quite a treat to see him talking so animatedly about his craft.

 

[Finn]

Wow, and in his 30s.

 

[Warped9]

Awesome!

 

[Shatnertage]

Very neat.

 

[Nero's Shadow]

Nice beard !!!!

 

[Michael]

Nice find. Although the video description says it's from 1979, which would make him 39 in that video.

 

[Gaith]

NCC-1701, I find your av... ironical.


Crikey, was this man born bald?!

 

[Finn]

^most of us were

 

[Too Much Fun]

I heard he started losing his hair at 19. I can't imagine how that could happen. What I find more surprising is how grey his hair is at the time. He almost looks older than he is now. I've never heard of anyone having such dark grey hair at 39!

 

[rahullak]

Awesome footage!

Grey hair at 39? Me neither.

 

[Christopher]

I've never heard of anyone having such dark grey hair at 39!

Really? It happens all the time. I saw plenty of greying heads and balding heads at my 20th high-school reunion -- heck, I saw some at my 10th, for that matter. I think it's just that a lot of people color their hair to conceal the grey, making it seem less common than it is.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I started getting a few grey hair at 19. I'm 32 at the moment and my hair is definitively salt-n-pepper. I suppose I will be full grey around 40. Just add to the charm.

 

[Atariboy]

Sweet find! Pics / vids of Sir Patrick before the 80s are oddly rare.

Regarding the balding: a couple classmates of mine in highschool used to bemoan the fact that they were loosing their hair even then (at age 16!) They've been chrome-domes for years now, and we're only 33.

 

[indolover]

I presume that's when he captained the Stargazer.

 

[Christopher]

^Well, we know from the flashbacks in "Violations" that Picard kept his hair far longer than Patrick Stewart did. At the time Jack Crusher died, about a year before the Stargazer was lost, Picard only had a receding hairline and still mostly brown hair.

 

[Canadave]

He almost looks older than he is now.

I swear sometimes that Patrick Stewart has stopped aging. Especially when you compare how he looks now to how he looked in 1986, relative to his TNG castmates.

Incidentally, was it just me, or did anyone else detect a trace of what is (I presume) Stewart's natural Yorkshire accent? I would guess that's something he worked very hard to eliminate when he decided to become a Shakespearean actor.

 

[Christopher]

I swear sometimes that Patrick Stewart has stopped aging. Especially when you compare how he looks now to how he looked in 1986, relative to his TNG castmates.

Funny, I think he's aged a great deal since then. When he started TNG, his hair was less white, his face less lined, and his voice a lot younger-sounding. Particularly, he's aged significantly since Nemesis. (I'm reminded of how Shatner kept himself fit and healthy as long as there was a chance he might play Kirk again, but after Generations he didn't take long to fill out to his current, err, stature and start looking his age.)

 

[Canadave]

^ Oh he's definitely aged (I was being a bit hyperbolic ), but it does seem as though he hasn't aged quite as much I would expect someone to over 25 years.

 

[Too Much Fun]

What is he saying at 1:38-1:41? It sounds like, "The poop was beaten gold!".

 

[Christopher]

What is he saying at 1:38-1:41? It sounds like, "The poop was beaten gold!".

That's exactly right. Enobarbus is saying that the poop deck of Cleopatra's barge, i.e. the deck that formed the roof of the aft cabin, was made of gold beaten into a flat sheet. "Poop deck" comes from poupe, the French word for the stern of a boat. (And it's a much older usage of the word "poop" than the one you're thinking of.)