Patrick Stewart Says After He Worked with Tom Hardy in STAR TREK: NEMESIS He Thought the Actor Would Never Work Again

Beloved actor Patrick Stewart has written a new memoir titled Making It So, and he dives into his most notable projects, the series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and several Star Trek films as well. One project he talks about is the 2002 film Star Trek: Nemesis, the fourth and final Star Trek feature to star The Next Generation cast. 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 got the wrong impression of.

“‘Nemesis,’ which came out in 2002, was particularly weak,” Stewart writes. “I didn’t have a single exciting scene to play, and the actor who portrayed the movie’s villain, Shinzon, was an odd, solitary young man from London. His name was Tom Hardy.”

Hardy was not a household name when he played the villain in “Star Trek: Nemesis,” and Stewart predicted his co-star never would be due to how shut off he was from the rest of the cast during the making of the movie.

“Tom wouldn’t engage with any of us on a social level. Never said, ‘Good morning,’ never said, ‘Goodnight,’ and spent the hours he wasn’t needed on set in his trailer with his girlfriend…He was by no means hostile — it was just challenging to establish any rapport with him.”

“On the evening Tom wrapped his role, he characteristically left without ceremony or niceties, simply walking out of the door. As it closed, I said quietly to Brent [Spiner] and Jonathan [Frakes], ‘And there goes someone I think we shall never hear of again.’ It gives me nothing but pleasure that Tom has proven me so wrong.”

Maybe he was just taking the role very seriously. He went on to star in many movies that took his career to the next level, including Inception, Lawless, The Dark Knight Rises, and Mad Max: Fury Road.

Via: Insider