Surely, the hardest part about acting is, well, acting… right? Not necessarily, and according to what Patrick Stewart wrote in his memoir, “Making It So” (via The Hollywood Reporter), going from the stage to a television set was just an adjustment that it took an intervention from some of his castmates to get everyone on the same page.
Outtake-worthy mistakes and missteps didn’t just get on his nerves, but they offended his proper theater training — where, after all, performances were live, there were no reshoots, and you’d better get it right every time. “On the TNG set, I grew angry with the conduct of my peers, and that’s when I called that meeting in which I lectured the cast for goofing off and responded to Denise Crosby’s, ‘We’ve got to have some fun sometimes, Patrick,’ comment by saying, ‘We are not here, Denise, to have fun.'” And it could have been the end right there, as everyone else found it absolutely hilarious… except, of course, for Stewart, who stormed out.
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It took Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner pulling him aside to get him on board with the television-show-set mentality, reminding him that they weren’t on a London stage. In addition to having a different culture in the day-to-day, they gently told him that he wasn’t making any friends by going all King Lear on them… and Stewart admitted, “I had failed to read the room.”
