00:00First of all, I want to know where you got that non-regulation uniform.
00:03Oh, I got a convention.
00:04You did?
00:05Yeah.
00:06You look a mess, frankly.
00:08I mean, just look at the ship.
00:10Put your hands just here, in front of you.
00:12Here, and just give it a pull down.
00:14Sharpen that.
00:15Just go.
00:15Tug.
00:16You got it.
00:17Terrific.
00:18When they're recasting the captain, I'm going to suggest you for the role.
00:21Come on, buddy.
00:23How much Star Trek have you watched?
00:24You tell me about my character, Jean-Luc Picard.
00:27Well, I know everything about him.
00:28Of course you do.
00:29So what can I tell you?
00:30He's a Frenchman from planet Earth.
00:34He went to Starfleet Academy.
00:36He's never been married.
00:40He speaks with an English accent, which people seem to find surprising, given that he's a Frenchman.
00:45But he speaks English so perfectly that he does it without an accent.
00:47He loves Shakespeare and music and detective stories.
00:52Hey, look, it's What's-His-Name, is one of the things they say.
00:56Or, no.
00:57I get called captain a great deal, of course.
00:59Which, on the whole, I like.
01:01In that I never did military service of any kind.
01:03So it's nice to be called captain without having to do any of the hard work.
01:06And most people still know me as Jean-Luc Picard.
01:10A few people know that my name is actually Patrick Stewart, and I'd like more of them to know it
01:13than really do.
01:14I didn't really replace William Shatner as captain of the Enterprise, because when I became captain of the Enterprise D,
01:22Bill Shatner was still Captain Kirk of the Enterprise.
01:26You know, one of the other ones with another letter attached to it.
01:30I can't remember which one it was.
01:32Because Bill was still making movies, so people kept asking me, how does it feel to be filling Bill Shatner's
01:36shoes?
01:37Well, Bill was still filling his own captain's shoes perfectly adequately.
01:41But to make it easy for him, I was just nice and charming and friendly, as I always have been
01:47to everybody who's been on our show.
01:48I have a reputation for that.
01:50So how did you two get along then?
01:52What?
01:54How did we get along?
01:55Just great.
01:56Just great.
01:58Well, he got along well with me because I'm easy to get along with.
02:01He's difficult to get along with.
02:03But I am such a sympathetic and understanding and warm and loving and affectionate human being that I somehow made
02:09it work.
02:10Let me tell you, you must never ever believe anything that Marina Sirtis ever says.
02:15Anyway, on the set, she said that you and the rest of the crew were very rowdy and actually had
02:19directors walk off and never return.
02:21Was it a lot like this making the movie?
02:25We lost a lot of directors while we were making the movie, yes.
02:29No, it's not true.
02:30No directors walked off the set and never returned.
02:32So let me lay that particular ghost on one side.
02:35But yes, we were rowdy.
02:37We had the reputation in Hollywood of being the nicest but the most undisciplined show to work on.
02:43And I wouldn't have had it any other way.
02:45It was always a lot of fun.
02:47I have seen directors down on their hands and knees begging us to rehearse a scene because we were having
02:51too much fun just, you know, making jokes and singing and fooling around.
02:55No, no directors walked off the movie.
02:57Everything was as nice as it could possibly be.
02:59I've yet to play Macbeth.
03:01I hope somebody will ask me sometime soon.
03:04The adventure of it all.
03:06I couldn't resist the thrill of traveling to Hollywood, California, USA, and to work there on a TV series.
03:17If I'd said no to the job, I would have never really forgiven myself.
03:21So.
03:21The adventure of it all.
