Patrick Stewart says after working with Tom Hardy on STAR TREK: NEMESIS he thought the actor would never work again

Beloved actor Patrick Stewart has written a new memoir titled Making it soand dives into his most important projects, the series Star Trek: The Next Generationand different Star Trek movies too. One project he talks about is the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesisthe fourth and last Star Trek protagonist feature The next generation launch. The film featured one of Stewart’s least memorable outings as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, according to the actor himself. It also featured an up-and-coming actor, who Stewart says he had the wrong impression of.

“‘Nemesis,’ released in 2002, was particularly weak,” Stewart writes. “I didn’t have a single emotional scene to play, and the actor who played the film’s villain, Shinzon, was a strange, lonely young Londoner. His name was Tom Hardy.”

Hardy wasn’t a household name when he played the villain in “Star Trek: Nemesis,” and Stewart predicted that his co-star would never be one because of how isolated he was from the rest of the cast during the making of the film.

“Tom wouldn’t want to interact with any of us on a social level. He never said “Good morning”, he never said “Goodnight” and spent the hours he wasn’t needed on set, in his trailer, with his girlfriend… He wasn’t hostile at all: it was just difficult to establish a relationship with him. .”

“The night Tom finished his role, he typically left without ceremony or nicety, simply walking out the door. When it closed, I calmly told Brent [Spiner] and Jonathan [Frakes]“And here’s someone I don’t think we’ll ever hear from again.” It gives me nothing but pleasure that Tom proved me so wrong.

Maybe he was simply taking the role very seriously. She went on to star in many films that took her career to the next level, including Start, Lawless, The Dark Knight RisesAND Mad Max: Road Fury.

Via: Insider