For many people, I will forever be Jean-Luc Picard, and so be it." Colleagues and journalists remember what Patrick Stewart was like.
Othello and Macbeth, Prospero and Mark Antony, and of course Captain Picard and Charles Xavier: Patrick Stewart was the rare actor who managed to become an icon for geeks and theatergoers alike. His stage colleagues advised him to focus on his theatrical career instead of starring in "Star Trek" - but science fiction about space captivated Stewart as much as Shakespeare. Then, as his close friend Sir Ian McKellen writes today, the success of Captain Picard largely assured him leading roles in more prestigious projects.
There is another group of people for whom Stewart has become an important figure: balding men. It sounds unexpected, but journalist Stuart Heritage wrote a whole text about it in "The Guardian". Let's quote the passage.
When men lose their hair, they begin to notice other ices - this helps them come to terms with their situation. Stewart experienced it himself - in 2023, he told the New Yorker magazine: "It's happened to me more than once - a man comes down the street, takes off his hat, and there's a bald head. He says I saved his life."
The fact is that Stewart was an exemplary bald man. Balding men often try to compensate for this - for example, by pushing the muscles so that no one will find fault with their hairstyle. Look at Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: how enthusiastic he was when he went bald! Or Jeff Bezos: he both started rocking and started building phallic rockets. Now look at Stewart, elegant, sophisticated, who accepted his baldness with dignity.
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