Meiling Jin: Interview with Patrick Stewart from Eacast Media on Vimeo.

 

 

Meiling: “First of all, congratulations on all of your achievement, Sir Stewart! One of your recent posts on your Instagram has pulled a lot of attention, that was you doing apple picking, so what was the story behind this photo, and usually what are your daily activities when you are not under the public eyes?”

Patrick: “Well, I enjoy social media quiet a lot, I was reluctant initially to become a part of it, but now I am very glad that a lot of pressure was put on me to do this. As well as supporting all kinds of important causes. Important to me that is, it gave me the opportunity to have fun of a kind that isn’t usually associated with Patrick Stewart. And now I have a following of people who I think beginning to see there is more to me being Jean Luc Picard and Charles Xavier. I am lucky that I have a property with a large orchard and every autumn we pick fruit. And it was my wife who took the photograph, and said ‘I think this could be a very nice moment for Instagram.’ And I am very pleased on how it all appeared.  And I would say a little byline too.

 

金美翎：“首先恭喜前辈获得了此次电影节的终身成就奖。最近在您的社交网络上有张关于您摘苹果的帖子超级火，并且得到了好评，这帖子的背后有什么我们不知道的趣事？平时不出席公众活动的时候您都在做什么呢？”

帕特里克-斯图尔特：“我挺喜欢在社交网络上跟粉丝互动的。其实一开始我是不太情愿注册任何公众账号，而现在就恰恰相反了。我利用这个平台宣传了很多有意义的活动，也展示了一个公众眼里不一样的我。现在越来越多的粉丝可以看到我皮卡尔舰长及X教授角色之外的生活。我自己有片果园，每逢秋季我

们都会去摘果。我相信我妻子的眼光，她当时就跟我说这张照片很有亲切感。贴到Instagram上就被粉丝传疯了，剪短的描述也成为了大家讨论的焦点。”

 

Meiling, “That’s very personal, I really like that.  So, one of my personal friends actually almost got cast as one of the mutants on X-Men, and I can see the casting process is actually pretty interesting, so what was the casting process like for you?”

Patrick: “For me? I will tell you very simply. I was doing ADR Warner’s Brothers on a film I was done with Richard Donner, and during the session I got a note that handed to me saying that Lauren Shuler Donner would like to meet me at her office, this is Richard’s wife. I went to the office, and her assistant said the door is open just go right in. I pushed the door and stepped inside. Lauren held up a comic book right in front of her, and just smiled. And I said, ‘Why am I on that front of that comic?’ And she said, ‘exactly.’ I knew nothing about the X-Men, I am not a comic book fan. It has been 17 years that we have been associated with that. And every moment has been a delightful experience.”

 

金美翎：“您能够这么接地气，真的很令人敬佩！我的一个好友曾差点就被选中饰演《X战警：天启》里的变种战士了。看起来剧组挑选演员的过程蛮有意思的，那么当时他们选你做X教授时到底是个什么筛选过程？”

帕特里克-斯图尔特：“其实很简单。当时我是在为李察-唐纳的电影《连锁阴谋》做后期配音，唐纳的妻子劳伦给我留了张纸条说想找我谈话。劳伦的助理跟我说门没锁，直接进去就成。我刚一进门，劳伦就朝我举起了一本动漫书，我便问她为什么我会在那本动漫书的封面上呢？劳伦回答说， “你猜的没错！” 当时的我真的对《X战警》动漫一无所知。我很珍惜每一次的拍摄合作，一晃就整整17年了，对那些快乐的时光仍然记忆犹新。