©Paramount/Courtesy of Everett Collection
Patrick Stewart shares candid thoughts on 2002’s ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’ in new memoir ‘Making It So’ (via insider). The film was the fourth and final Star Trek feature starring the Next Generation cast, and Stewart’s least memorable turn as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, at least according to Stewart himself. It featured one of the.
“Nemesis, released in 2002, was particularly weak,” Stewart wrote. “There wasn’t a single exciting scene, and the actor who played the movie’s villain, Shinzon, was an eccentric, lonely young man from London. His name was Tom Hardy.”
Hardy wasn’t a household name when he played the villain in Star Trek: Nemesis, but Stewart said he would never co-star with them because of how isolated he was from the rest of the cast during the film’s production. I expected it.
“Tom would not interact with any of us on a social level,” Stewart wrote. “He never said ‘good morning,’ he never said ‘good night,’ and he spent all the time he didn’t need on set with his girlfriend in the trailer…He was never hostile. He was just… “It was just difficult to build relationships,” he said. “
“The night Tom finished his role, he characteristically didn’t do any ritual or magic and just walked out the door,” Stewart added. “As we closed, I said quietly to Brent, [Spiner] and jonathan [Frakes], “And gone is someone you’ll probably never hear from again.” It gives me nothing but joy that Tom proved me wrong. ”
Star Trek: Nemesis was only Hardy’s third feature film. She went on to have supporting roles in films such as Layer Cake and Marie Antoonette, before gaining significant recognition with projects such as Bronson and Inception.
