STAR TREK: PICARD cast (Patrick Stewart & more!) talk STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION memories

hey guys thanks as always for listening and watching happy to say I'm confused this is a special one we've got a Star Trek the card cast spectacular Michael Jordan Jonathan friggs you guys ready for this should we do it sure we're here anyway some surprises some surprising some surprise check it out like And subscribe hello good evening uh welcome to a sold out 92 NY event a live edition of happy sad confused on Josh Horowitz welcome guys um I know why you're here guys uh uh I am here for the same reason I I grew up with Star Trek and I grew up with this cast and I don't know if it's a miracle or what we're all in the right place today guys uh you the audience here has just seen uh the first episode of season three of Star Trek Picard and it's amazing isn't it guys it's from yeah uh hate me if you want but I've seen the first six episodes it's it's honestly you don't even know what is coming it's insane I'm not gonna play them now you have the cast waiting all right um I'm nerding out big time uh this is an event this does not happen every day so let's just bring them on out I'm gonna ask a bunch of questions it's been 35 years guys since this cast first uh grab my heart and my mind and my love uh please give a warm New York City welcome and 92 NY welcome to Michael Dorne to to Jonathan breaks Jonathan breaks please to Gates McFadden and to serve Patrick Stewart [Applause] does that happen every day to you guys is that a normal occurrence every day every single day we usually kisses Patrick and Michael Doran too but right right it's not that day today it's got the rotating schedule you got to leave him wanting more um but when people see you out and about because you are actual friends in real life I know it's shocking to say but it's real when they when people see you out in the wild together it must be insane do they react in something maybe a little bit more muted but still slightly insane hopefully [Laughter] that's the desired effect exactly I actually I actually don't get that um if you wore that turtle head out more yes I did in fact uh for many many years uh when I would be out in public I would get the same look every time I'd be like talking or going through an airport something like that and I go uh yes I'd like I have you know the flight to Orlando and the guy says yeah that'll be laughs and it's that they're trying to put together the voice and the face and they just can't do it uh but I got that many many years do you help them along or do you just let them talk no no I let them stew I I have actually sometimes sometimes I even lie you know but uh but no no I've been on a plane with all of these people I don't know if you were on the flight maybe you were but everyone Brent Marina everyone and the stewardess was going crazy and she was going around asking flight attendant I'm sorry [Applause] I I stand I stand humbled and corrected um the flight attendant who was so gorgeous no I'm kidding she uh she was asking for all of their autographs and I'm sitting right next to Brent we're all in different seats and she comes up and I'm smiling and she hands it over to Brent she said can I get your autograph and he signs and then she asks for it back and then Brent says well wait a minute don't you want hers and she said oh okay Mrs Spiner sure and and so I signed it I said love you Mrs Spiner it's a collectible item I mean to be sure it's a collectible yeah um and for myself yes please for myself um most people think I'm Ben Kingsley [Applause] now he's a lovely guy I've known Ben for 50 years and he's a brilliant actor but would he please stop pretending to be me so it has been quite a while since we've seen this crew together uh in this way we've seen bits and Bobs but Star Trek Picard season three is a true homecoming it is a true reunion um talk to me a little bit about for you Patrick was this always in the cards when you came back for Star Trek Picard were you eyeing this were you thinking about this like if we get the opportunity if the if the audience responds it would be nice by season two three four to bring back my friends you know this may not go down well you're going to go with the truth he's going to go with his truth the words homecoming and um reunion Reunion yeah that's not what Picard is about it's really really isn't I know a lot of people wanted to see uh Next Generation just with an older cast but it was not it was never going to happen not not for me when we first talked about it and then one day towards the end of episode where series one I was playing a scene with Marina certis who's currently in London and uh and Jonathan was there too because my husband and wife and I found the experience to be so delightful and touching and full of complex emotions because he you may know you may be surprised we are a closely bound group of actors and I I love everybody and I feel love coursing back at me all the time and that's been the great benefit of filming Picard I'm curious for for Gates and Michael was there any trepidation when this comes around I mean it had been some time since you played these characters did you have questions was there I don't know did you approach it cautiously or was were you all in from the first idea of this I was working in my living room on Crusher for like 20 years just every day in the uniform and I was it was it was good okay you all missed it so I would watch the one woman I Beverly show any day um no it was uh it was a great uh thing to get a call from Terry matalis who I think is fantastic and has put this all together unbelievable yes Applause but Terry and he was so lovely because he asked us all at least he asked certainly me the like here's my idea of the story and Patrick was thinking it was a good idea and what do you think and and we talked about it because I didn't want to go back unless I really felt it was a a good um role and it was different and and it wasn't just the same Beverly Crusher that we'd seen before so I loved the story I love that she's been off on her own in her own ship the ilios and and doing this work she's an Explorer and adventurer scientist and that that was great so I was happy for yes for you Michael the man with the most Trek hours on the resume I got I got 280 episodes 280 episodes we we think a thousand makeups thousand uh but um yeah I've always been you know surprised I always surprised myself that I so easily go yeah I'll do it again you know um but there's there's one thing that that you forget about and I don't know why I do but I kind of forget about it until I get there and and uh it's the makeup you just you just go wow and and I I want to make this as sure as possible it's like getting a call from an old girlfriend who says hey Michael you know hi this is Mary oh hello Mary how are you doing oh I've been thinking about you so much I'd really love to see you again we had such a good time and you go you know yeah she was really nice and really really had a great time a lot of lovely things and now yeah I'll have dinner with you and then halfway through dinner was she a stewardess you you go you go and um but uh but it was um the same thing they they made it very very easy uh to come back because they Incorporated stuff that we thought and stuff excuse me I thought and stuff that they had uh in mind and uh it was a it was a fairly easy transition this show is sponsored by betterhelp guys I generally feel at my best when I'm confronting the issues in my life I'm not avoiding them and that's where something like therapy can come into play and can be of help it's helped many people I know it's helped me in the past and it can help you because when you're at your best you can do great things sometimes life gets you bogged down it happens to the best of us and you can feel overwhelmed you can feel like you're not showing up for yourself or for others well working with a therapist can help you get closer to the best version of you because 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of your heads what would it say I hate my space suit [Laughter] yeah yeah I got it an English I got it it didn't play so great at the Y though did it [Laughter] well speaking okay speaking of laughter on the set when did you guys relax when did you guys when did laughter start to actually enter the equation like was it was it tense right from the start or insane right from the start the vibe of you want to take that one Patrick that one Patrick insane insane yes I think so uh you know you may have had this before but uh my first day was not the day one of shooting which rather disappointed me I thought it was a captain I should have been in the first day as seven years later and I was in the last day of shooting well it wasn't the last scene of the show it was an earlier scene and uh it was with this guy Q you know and uh anyway and everybody was like one o'clock in the morning and everybody was so tired and they just waited to hear and cut that's the end of next generation and it took a while to come but then it did finally arrive we all fell asleep I'm stopping there okay you're the captain do what you like oh what what's the [Laughter] respect you're right you're right what's the wine retired [Applause] is there one line of technobabble that will haunt you to your dying day that you will hear in your uh like just in your brain that will never Escape you that was traumatic at the time and still you know I've never had technobabble I uh Wharf was nice planet um but there is there is one one thing that I always that always tickled me uh out of everything and and I don't know if you guys know this but uh Patrick talking Klingon oh I I literally couldn't get through a scene I'm surprised to hear that Michael it was it was he was deadly serious it was really you know but he just when he said it I I just lost it and it was one where he said um oh God I can't say the line it's zika said Jag me Jag and I went [Music] but but Michael what you don't seem to understand is that that was not an accident or the best I could do it was deliberate I was dealing with an alien accent and yeah I could speak it fluently but emotionally intellectually yeah yeah nice Escape Admiral good cover [Laughter] you all directed on the original on next-gen or Deep Space Nine you all directed Mr Frakes has kept at it like I mean just this is your life I mean you're amazing at it yes was it was it an adjustment when fellow actors were directing each other was that that you know that could be a little unusual a little a little touchy or was it uh was it smooth sailing for you Jonathan do you remember when you started to direct your fellow actors I remember it as if it was yesterday I had uh shadowed as they call it for about three years and finally Rick Berman who is the keeper of all things Star Trek at that point relented and gave me an episode and my all levity aside the cast was incredibly supportive I was very well prepared it was a data episode which is generally a good sign because Brent's a pretty decent actor reneishaverio had written it as spec script and he's gone on to a great career as an executive producer of many other shows the the company behind the camera was supportive because we just spent three years together and we had become it was a really it was a great place to work so all the uh Stars aligned for my first episode which led to getting another one as you know we did 26 a year and often if you're doing 26 episodes of Television a year they're not going to be all home runs or triples hit by pitch no it was pitches and catches by the way on Thursday for all you Baseball fans um so it was uh I was blessed and continue to be by having the opportunity to do this job Gates when you think back to the time on next gen and then and the films I mean look I think we can all agree Crusher was underserved Crusher did not get what you and wait so I was in those films oh okay I mean was it a constant fight was it a constant discussion like where where's the material guys like what what happened yeah but you know there's a system and there's a studio system and there's Hollywood and I I was a New Yorker for 22 years right uh and I you know I I really was clueless basically when I got out there so I didn't understand that yeah there's ways of doing things there's politics and you don't always get what you want that's for sure you know so yeah I was disappointed in my roles in the films I felt it it was a character I really didn't think was Crusher so I'm thrilled with what's going on now it was I'm honored that it was such a great script for everybody [Music] foreign people in in this season the people who I had never worked with are fabulous I really loved every choice of actor other than Michael Doran but you know uh no they're all fantastic has the tech changed that much are you guys still kind of like pushing back and forth when you know when the the ship is hit does it feel like you know I'd like to I'd like to I don't know if I like your tone yeah I I was getting ready to you see what he yeah we worked on that [ __ ] no no no there was let me say that there was they have tried for for I don't know how many movies to replicate that they had you know 200 000 worth of hydraulics and things are going and you know oh we're gonna take the they took the bridge and put it on gimbals to try to and in the end they said uh forget that can you guys do your seriously we had a couple of rules we would ask after we had conferred as a company we'd asked the director what do you want between a one and a 10. that was the level of shake if any it was overnight somebody had to fall and I think it's a good time to share a little anecdote if you will we're on the bridge sir Patrick's in the middle I'm over here to his right Marina's over here on the left down the front we've got uh Lavar and Brenton and we're shooting like crazy and Patrick's in a seat that is by the way Ergo metal could be designed to his ass or lack of ass so he's he's extremely comfortable in shaking in his seat and I'm sitting where Gates is and Patrick's grumbling and shaking and he's old Johnny Johnny 25 years in the Royal Shakespeare company for this [Applause] you tell me you got one I got one um they're involved it involved Patrick and and Gates and myself and we were going through this horrible stage 16 which is nothing that's where they put all the dirt and everything like that and they uh and they planted hell and they have because of dirt we had stray cats in the at Paramount so cats dirt piss and so we're crawling through just all of this stuff and into little caves that they did and were and and the end of one day we are covered in this stuff and we're tired and it's late and I look over and there's Patrick and we are look at each other and we just started chuckling at it just just kind of laughing but it wasn't that sort of oh wow we were laughing like oh my God you know like like oh and I looked at Patrick and I said Patrick what are you laughing at and he goes I don't know how I got here [Applause] and I said and he says one minute I'm doing a seminar in Santa Barbara and next I'm crawling around and catch it [Applause] foreign I remember something that I've I don't know if anyone else remembers this but I I don't know who was directing but there was there were these creatures from a planet and they were like rice okay they were these tiny things and the director who was a new director he had us all standing in a line and we were supposed to pretend they were going to do CGI that we were watching this thing do you remember this and the director had a stick and we're all in a line and he was having us move with whatever he was doing and I just had this memory it was late at night and were all of us in a line going and it was like ridiculous and we all started laughing that's what I remember and it was it was like and then finally we got to sort of space it out we had some crazy so with all these glamorous experiences over the years I'm Patrick I mean like I I'm sure look it's a love affair with Shrek it has brought you so much joy and happiness and and a life but like has there been kind of a push and pull at times where you were like guys I need a day without a trek reference I'm good like I need I need I need a break from Trek or has it felt like a study like did you kind of rationalize and understand what your relationship was to Trek and the fans pretty early on did you just say that this show brought you a life or brought you a wife which was because they're not the same thing no that well they're sometimes overlap I said life you did say wife no I didn't I said why but it was in your head yeah yeah that's good good because that's the other character that can read minds yeah so what was your question um your relationship with Trek over the years um has it always been you know a healthy one or did it feel like at times like a lot to wear that mantle it has been much more than healthy it has been full of pride and um you know for seven years we never ever got into the list of nominees for major TV dramas not one of us what not acting no uh I I don't think directing ever got an Emmy um design and did special effects every year they were mounting up but we we never did and it always felt to me that there was some kind of curse underlying the nature of the show that we did and that and there was um a reluctance to acknowledge that what we were doing was really unusual a novel and outstanding and uh and it never was here thank you thank you and anyone can take this finish the sentence for me if I'm scrolling through the television channels and I see the next generation is on I dot dot dot pour yourself a drink perfect perfect I want to talk to you guys about performance apparel and our sponsor this week viori because guys I have become so sick and tired of the traditional old workout gear it's not comfortable it's not functional it doesn't look good that's 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slash HSC not only will you receive 20 off your first purchase but enjoy free shipping on any us orders over 75 and free returns go to viori.com HSC and discover the versatility of viori clothing some burning questions for you guys uh Riker with or without the beard where do we stand not even a question in the Urban Dictionary which I don't always quote Riker's beard means the opposite of Jumping the Shark that's amazing [Applause] he says with pride would the show have have succeeded if as intended early on Sir Patrick wore a hairpiece can we look at the photo that we have we have a photo I don't oh don't no we don't have to we don't have to we don't have to we don't have to we don't have enough um dodged a bullet there yeah yeah better villain laughs the Borg or Q whoa I messed up I think definitely the Borg I mean my own my own opinion I thought that Q was was um uh he wasn't a true enemy because he was you know immortal so it wasn't ever really a chance of you know of winning uh where the Borg you know they had their weaknesses and so I think that they're they're a better enemy did I say something wrong is it did I get the question wrong or what what is Jesus Johnny you look at me like I'm confused about who the Borg are now what do you mean you said Q's Immortal so therefore not really an enemy yeah what about the bork I mean they got you know who but they're they're not Immortal you can beat them so there's a chance you know he was essentially a God I mean how do you fight a God yeah I'm with you Michael it's all good we're good yeah all right wow you're gonna have to ponder that one a little what about vatic oh new season yep guys what is she in this in the first episode no no no oh great CBS my apologies again they're on phone The Producers okay I I have deep respect for both categories um having been myself for a while a borg there there is an empathetic empathetic quality inside me but I also love John Delancey he he raised the stakes every time you played a scene with him and he's a wonderful man and a just astonishing actor however what you did what you missed out were the Ferengi they never got respected then my guys I love them next time I come around I'm gonna be a free [Applause] there's the quote of the night I was gonna say if you had on your bingo card Patrick Stewart saying of the Ferengi they're my guys big winner big winner tonight foreign again without ruining anything of the the season because it's there's a lot of surprises in store and as you referenced earlier these relationships have evolved um Riker and Picard have a much different kind of dynamic that we're going to see uh more contentious we can say what was it like to play out what these folks haven't quite seen yet which is New Territory for Riker and Picard it was a pleasure Roddenberry as you probably know discouraged the idea of conflict in the bridge family in the family of the ship which was inherently the opposite of what makes good drama as we also know so Gene's vision of the future was clearly much more peaceful and without confrontation what we've moved on to not only the characters but the actors are now 20 years older than the last time we saw them Picard is no longer in Starfleet Rikers got huge uh family issues that had changed his his the dynamic and the writers had pitched to Patrick and me the idea of this sort of Butch and Sundance but in Conflict so the the characters have always been like brothers and Friends but very rarely disagreed or their points of view were very rarely opposed I think what we got to do in this season together at least my feeling is was as interesting or as exciting as anything of the scenes we'd played prior and again what you mentioned you look into Patrick's eyes and you get into the scene with him and you know you're in good hands and that was uh that's how I felt [Applause] we have as you can imagine a bunch of questions from this audience so let's see what they have in store for you um John G wants to know do you think Star Trek can still be used as a mirror to our current world sure sure yeah absolutely I think it can and I think that's the way that it's going and it's something that uh I I my Association in that respect makes me very proud um we just mentioned the new villain vadak uh in the final original series film Christopher Plummer played the big villain what are your thoughts on the symmetry of his daughter playing the big villain in this next Generation Adventure she's such a gifted actress this is a man to plumber Amanda Plummer and I mean I knew her work from theater in New York uh she's she has really done a fantastic job in this in the season really really spectacular I think everyone's going to enjoy it I was very impressed with her choices and it was so much fun working with her really really fun yes this is an important one Doug wants to know if you were if you were a warp nay cell would you be the port nay cell or the starboard starboard take your time don't rush into this guys Michael wants words with Doug order starbird anybody lefty or righty around here no pass port well you have a better chance of surviving in the port necell Point okay and then your chances go down right uh to Gates McFadden what is Dr crusher's medical specialty as you see it see it yes well I'm glad you asked I will be taking appointments uh I think crusher's specialty I always wanted to uh I I brought to Jean when I first came in to talk to him I brought all these Oliver Sacks books because I had read his books and thought he was fantastic so I said I wanted to be a neurologist really someone who's very into the brain and because I think we're only beginning to understand the brain even now and it's so extraordinary so that's and I had brought him Awakenings which the movie hadn't been made yet and I said this would be a cool episode this kind of thing so I I always patterned her after that but then I realized she she also could could work on cats and uh you know so she had a lot of Specialties and she she worked a lot to expand her practice although although she always only had about two patients in sick Bay but still okay and many of them died yeah I was just about to say [Applause] yeah you don't want to dig into the the stats for Crusher uh this is for Patrick Stewart but I I'd like to hear any and all of you weigh in on this what has surprised you most about your character after playing them over the years like were there new surprises this season that you found I mean you know these characters as few do as no one does yes but I'm not allowed to talk about any of them no I I there weren't really surprises uh the only thing that was a surprise that they had talked about was um the way the character looks you know they wanted to have a certain look and and that was that was surprising but it wasn't like oh my God this is something you know it was something I kind of warmed up to so uh so that was so there weren't really not not for me at least there weren't really surprises so Wharf looks awesome yeah they had um they had said that to me they said they wanted him to have this gray hair and I told the story earlier that you know that I my little ego my little actors ago I had a little ego thank you for that that's the other thing we do we don't let each other get away with [ __ ] um [Laughter] Alyssa would like to know how many fish were in the Fishbowl in the ready room five Patrick Livingston human in total didn't you I believe so yeah uh another question for Gates what was the most fun about shooting action scenes as a character who is often a caregiver who's the best at action okay so did that come naturally you have a dancing background I would imagine well I've done also martial arts um yeah I'm I'm yeah uh but I you know Marina and I didn't get much of that when we were doing the first part of the thing I got a couple times where I got to do I had the vortex okay uh I had uh that one episode where I went on it with the guy and I loved all of that stuff I really must say so that was fun I would uh just because I love to do movement okay yeah yeah Michael do you enjoy wharf's fighting moves all these 35 years in uh yeah yeah I do actually um it kind of started but as all we all know the um the first season whenever a uh character would come on the ship who is supposed to be kind of big and strong they would beat up Wharf you know it always [Laughter] you know yes hello I'm John lubricard and this is you know Lieutenant Wharf would you like to beat him up and um and it was it was you know it for the first few times it was like you know and uh and then I went to Gene and I said you know I'm really concerned because every time that this whole thing and you know and he goes well Michael um we just want to show that that Wharf is very powerful and that you know these people are very are even more powerful you know and I go well well data is the most powerful thing in the Galaxy why don't and he says get out of my office but but I I have to say that Dan Curry who did the special the um a lot yeah he was I didn't mean to stop I just meant to say yeah it was uh but he and I got together and he's a martial arts expert and well that's why we do these panels we learn things about each other and um and so he and I got together and we created the the Klingon martial arts and that was you know all of this stuff that you see is from him so and I and I do enjoy that I like the physicality of it I like all the stuff uh and so it was always a pleasure and and in you know the Picard uh iteration it is um same thing we continue with that which I'm I'm very happy about to uh to a great degree today's episode of happy sad confused is sponsored by Honey the easy way to save when shopping on your iPhone or computer are you guys like me do you feel kind of a buzz when you find a deal do you feel smart do you feel lucky what about when you're surprised by a deal does it feel like you're 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free at joinhoney.com HSC that's joinhoney.com HSC when Nemesis came out did it feel like there was unfinished business like did it feel like this wasn't the way we wanted to go out as a cast yes Patrick definitely we wouldn't have gone out at the movie made any money I think that's a sad truth is that uh Paramount had made 10 Star Trek movies and nine of them made money and Nemesis didn't and they said we're done and they shut down the movie franchise and then they gave it to JJ and gave him a lot more money and he made some big wonderful glorious cinematic movies and and we're all back thank you [Applause] do you have a favorite I mean I would imagine there have been so many different pitches meetings Etc about different Star Trek projects after Nemesis was there one project in particular that for any of you that was close to your heart well you I mean you've talked before Michael about wanting to do a a wharf series and that's still out you know it's still out there it could you know I actually I actually uh I had a had a meeting with uh kurtzman uh Alex and um Heather and one of the other producers about you know the war series and um in this business and John and I were talking earlier that so many things have to happen have to fall into place in this business I mean I said like 10 things and he says no 20 uh have to fall into place before anything happens I mean they could be they could be like oh wow this is great and one person goes no I don't think so and they go no we didn't like that either you know and and that's the end of it you know so but you know you never say never in this business I mean well what do you think this is the last I said he just he he can't predict that especially in Star Trek if they said oh by the way 20 years later you're going to be doing this again you go you know I'm going to be on a beach I'm not going to be you know so there you go does it feel or it seems fruitless and futile at this point to say like this is the end right I mean like it's being said this is the end of the Star Trek the card series is that true I mean that doesn't I guess the caveat is it could be something else it could be called something else I'm just giving you an opening to continue Patrick but yes it would we know really would be Star Trek Picard with other folks too I don't know that they want to change the title right Patrick oh look it to me three seasons was always ideal perfect um because I didn't want it to become bogged down and you know trying to find new stories to tell and tell I was so happy with where they placed Picard at the very beginning of this movie and of the season and I also felt that having lived with him for so many years I could live with him only for a few more and and uh and in fact what we ended up doing was unique in many respects and I like that I really like that I will say and I haven't mentioned this and again I'm not going to ruin anything but like I was also astounded at how much it honors all the iterations of Trek if you're a voyager fan a Deep Space Nine fan any of the series [Applause] and it really Terry matawas the the showrunner has really done a great job in kind of Towing threading that line between you know it can be called fan service but it's not it's it it works for the story it really does and I it's it's you'll like it that's all I'm saying you'll like it we hope so um Mira wants to know what is the greatest gift your character has given you for any of you it's a big one Mira doesn't do easy questions yeah yeah how to listen yeah foreign that's a really good answer that was it yeah I like it yeah yeah I mean listening is really really important on what we do I can you watch TV and I can see actors who are just waiting for their cue they're not actually listening to what's being said to them and I I've you guys have heard me say this so many times on a meeting that I once had with Rod Steiger it was my first day ever on a in front of a camera and he said to me at lunchtime you know what you've got to remember is the camera photographs thoughts think about it are there any traits from your respective characters you'd like to oh that's a different question well I'm tweaking it yeah Patrick and I have often talked about if we could be the men that Picard and Riker are we would be better men there are a certain sense of honor and there's a loyalty and there's a the qualities that Roddenberry imbued into the characters that he wrote are qualities that we aspire to I certainly aspire to be that good a man and will not be but I I it's good to play him it's it's good to play someone who is that honorable I think and has a sense of humor and but he's uh his loyalty is is really admirable I'm curious just you know look you have about 800 devoted fans uh in this audience and you encounter folks like them every day the last 35 years and that's a lot of energy that's a lot of love that's a lot of um it's a lot and I guess I'm curious like how do you receive that has it changed over the years um do you respect it more or understand it more I've I've learned so much about about this country about myself about um the future and how we are all connected I um I've grown a lot as a as a person I think through many of the people I have met um there are some amazing encounters that we've all had and I I really respect uh so many of the the people who love the show they taught me what it is to be a role model I didn't teach them they taught me and um I hope if I have any Legacy for the character it is a character that gives love uh because I think that it's ephemeral it's not like it's not a monument it's not a plaque it's just something and there is a give and take with an audience that is extraordinary and certainly for Star Trek it's been powerful well said since we're near the end I'm saving my tough questions at the end one burning question I did not ask Patrick uh Picard or Professor X foreign well you know the real the the nature of both these characters is so different what I'm throwing in some Shakespeare too options now let's move it into two all right well maybe I'll give it a shot in the Collins just played Hamlet there you go yeah [Applause] um that are so different the first time that I met with Brian Singer when he wanted because I'd passed on the offer of X-Men because I didn't want to go into the world of sci-fi anymore or fantasy or you know superheroes and all that and he persuaded me that there would be something totally different about X-Men and he was right and uh I I found um that jean-luc's Manner and attitude was one of a man who was essentially always ready to be at War and that was not the case with um what was his name that was a he went by a few Xavier Professor Xavier yes Charles Charles yes yeah I was it was just the first name I couldn't Chuck Xavier I liked him because just like just like the work we did I loved being with that company of actors as well do you feel okay about Hugh going back I feel like you had a pact you were out together now Hugh Jackman's going back you know I would probably have done the same but we we both felt that we were waving goodbye with Logan we you know it's maybe better known than I believe but he and I held hands through the last 20 minutes of Logan because I suddenly saw that he was wiping his eyes and the moment I saw that I began my emotion began to over and we held hands right to the end of the movie and it was absolutely delightful amazing I mean should we end with taking a shot as if we're on on the bridge guys what number three four what do you think unless you want to hit the deck it's got to be under eight a two two is two is good and which way are we going we'll start to the left okay okay and Shake okay and as you're set up audience will say and Shake okay so but you have to put a little bit okay so I'm gonna give you a three two one and then you do the and Shake together you guys you got you guys got this we're going left we're gonna start left here okay come back I'm sweating guys I'm scared you [ __ ] set it up this is your call you're the only one who doesn't know what you're doing I know it was a horrible idea okay three two one [Applause] that was that was too much what was what number did I give you you gave us like four four or five my first one guys two is all right and you have to have that look on your face too you like the twos don't you Patrick I know you do yeah okay we're gonna do one more time which are we doing two again yes okay okay three two one [Applause] the Victory Is Ours ladies and gentlemen the cast of Star Trek the card

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Published: Mon Feb 20 2023