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[–] 115 points 16 hours ago (24 children)

Every obit will mention his roles as Picard and Professor X. Let's celebrate his other awesome roles, like Uriel Septim VII in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, or just being himself as he read Shakespearean sonnets each night to the world during COVID lockdown. Or my personal favorite, his scene in Extras that still makes me laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M

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  • [–] 47 points 15 hours ago

    He was a terrific Gurney Halleck in Lynch's Dune.

    And honestly, from everything I've heard about the man, he was just an all-around lovely person. Caring and supportive of anyone who had the good fortune to know him.

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  • [–] 31 points 15 hours ago

    A fun fact I enjoy about his role as Uriel Septim is that apparently he was given a large booklet (90 pages apparently) of notes on his character's background, motivations, the world's wider lore, as well as notes that linked into roles Stewart had played before. The Oblivion team were worried that they'd overload him with too much information, but Stewart was, in fact, delighted by all the details, and remarked that he wished all of his roles would give him so much to work with.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago

    When I was in college I had a Shakespeare course that required me to get through about one play per week and I was falling behind on the reading. However I learned that the campus AV room had tapes of Royal Shakespeare Company productions which you could check out. There’s not always a Hollywood movie of every Shakespeare play and not all the movies stick to the text. But the RSC ones did 100% and they were well made. They weren’t captures from live performances with an audience, more like soap-opera level of production values.

    But guess who was in all of them.

    Patrick Stewart got me through college.

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