It is obvious upon first meeting him that Sir Patrick Stewart is a man of contradictions. The young boy born in Mirfield who grew up in a poor household in Jarrow fraught with domestic violence is now an elegant gentleman at once stoic and kind. His proper Queen’s English is what one notices at once, making all attempts by this journalist to sound intelligent in his presence invalid. And yet Stewart admits that in his youth “you wouldn’t have understood me if you heard me talk, I spoke with not just an accent — we had a dialect, so we used other words as well.” He proceeds to make an example which of course, sounds like he’s speaking a foreign tongue, not even English anymore.
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He is the officially retired Professor X from the Wolverine series, Captain Picard in ‘Star Trek’ and now the CBS spin-off ‘Star Trek: Picard’. He has been a Shakespearean actor as well as Poop Daddy in ‘The Emoji Movie’ — I guess you could call Sir Patrick Stewart versatile.
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