Stewart has just released a memoir, Making It So. He talks to NPR's Rachel Martin about his life on screen and stage, and why he considers his years on Star Trek as a kind of spiritual calling.
I’m truly enjoying all these interviews that are coming out as Patrick Stewart goes around on the promotion circuit.
In a sense, we were ministers. And I have heard now so many times from individuals who have been honest enough and brave enough to tell me aspects of their life, of their health, of their mental health. And how it was all saved and improved by watching every week.
Martin: How did that sit with you? That’s an awful lot of responsibility to be that. I mean, you’re an actor in a show and people ascribe to you this wisdom, you’re a moral compass for them.
Damn straight! What a weird question.