Patrick Stewart on his Shakespearean beginnings

By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin | November 22, 2017 | 7:15pm

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Sir Patrick Stewart is best known for being a part of two giant science-fiction properties, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in Fox’s X-Men franchise. But the English actor got his start on stage, performing in over 60 productions with The Royal Shakespeare Company. In the video above, he talks about how he first encountered Shakespeare and the thrill of performing on stage.