Definitely one of the best autobiographies I’ve read but be warned, if you’re not a theatre fan he spoils key scenes and endings of some of Shakespear’s works. Talking about how as a teen, he used to make a disabled boy beat his stump of a hand into a wall until it bled, and then bragging just a few lines later about how his empathy for a dying squirrel must have been an early sign he'd be a great actor because he had so much empathy?

Stewart, Patrick: 9781982167738 Making It So: A Memoir: Stewart, Patrick: 9781982167738

And then the line "Once again I had cheated on my wife with a much younger woman, I really needed to do better by the women in my life.

I ask now if becoming aware of his father’s illness made it easier to comprehend, if not excuse, his actions?

Patrick Stewart’s Memoir, MAKING IT SO, Arrives in October Patrick Stewart’s Memoir, MAKING IT SO, Arrives in October

This book provides a very deep and very real look into the life of Sir Patrick, from his childhood to his recent experiences acting in the "Picard" series. He is rather serious by nature and finds true meaning in works of art and performances by actors he admires, which naturally leads him to imbue meaning in everything he does. In my second year at the Mirfield Secondary Modern School, I was assigned to the Eng-lit class of Cecil Dormand, who was also my form master. The young Stewart was guilty of becoming a bully in turn: he describes his malicious taunting of a schoolmate with a deformed hand.And you can be by yourself and have your own friends there and there will be people to look after you. I learned so much of his colorful and winding road from repratoray theatre and classical Shakespeare to the Captain’s chair. He goes on, “Other than the radio, our home life didn’t have much to offer, and occasionally it had horror to offer. Tickets may be available to book in person from one hour before the performance at The Bear Pit Theatre.

Patrick Stewart on childhood ‘On stage, I could escape’: Sir Patrick Stewart on childhood

Even now, Stewart’s age hasn’t quite caught up with some of the walk-on parts he played as a novice – an 85-year-old butler, or someone’s ancient American father in an obscure Shaw play.But I was even more thrilled to see that Patrick Stewart, who I knew from Dune and Lady Jane, was the lead. I would have liked to have said to him, ‘Dad, there were so many aspects of you and your life that have taken me by the hand and led me on my way through adulthood and into old age.

Making It So: A Memoir: Stewart, Patrick: 9781982167738

An informal way of finding out more about the production, the actor's process and what it's like to work for the RSC. It is amazing to read this book and find out (unsurprisingly) that Patrick Stewart is in many ways similar to the beloved TNG character he portrays.Stewart clearly maintains a gift for friendship, and a love for the fellow actors he most admires – Vivien Leigh, Ian Holm and (more recently) Star Trek’s Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, MAKING IT SO, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life—from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim—proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself. But Stewart is aware that without support he would not be where he is and it pains him to witness the cuts to government funding for the arts. My husband's grandparents got together because their dads were both working in the Secret City of Oak Ridge, TN. He didn’t know Ian McKellen well until they were cast as adversaries in X-Men (2000) and “began a conversation that has continued, more or less without pause, for 23 years” – including on stage, in a much-touted Waiting for Godot.