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Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 499th episode of The Hollywood Reporter's

Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a remarkable English

actor of stage and screen whose career spans seven decades and has been recognized with M.E. Tony

Sag and Golden Globe Award nominations as well as two Olivier Awards. He spent the first

decades of his career working primarily in the theatre, distinguishing himself to the extent

that the evening's standard described him as one of our finest Shakespearean actors.

Then a faithful series of events in 1987 led to him at the age of 47 becoming Jean-Luc Picard,

the captain of the Starship Enterprise on the syndicated TV drama series Sartreck the

next generation, the first incarnation of Sartreck without Kirk, Spock or McCoy.

That show ran for 178 episodes over seven years, spawned four feature films,

and in 2020 was spun off into the Paramount Plus drama series Sartreck Picard,

which came to an end in April after a three-season run, and for which many feel that this actor

at the age of 82 deserves a special send-off from the TV Academy, to which I say make it so.

Sir Patrick Stewart

Over the course of our conversation at Stewart's home in Los Angeles, ahead of a visit from his

Sartreck co-star and dear friend Jonathan Frakes that I was lucky enough to witness,

the Thessbian, who lost his hair at 19 and possesses with the New York Times as aptly

described as an aura of stern yet fair authority and seriousness of purpose, reflected on his

rather dark childhood and how stage acting came to provide him with a much-needed escape.

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