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McKellen calls his advice to Stewart ‘bad’

Sir Ian McKellen said on X that his advice to Patrick Stewart not to leave London theater for Star Trek: The Next Generation was bad. Stewart took the role and spent the show's first season living out of a suitcase, convinced it would be canceled. He later became widely known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

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