The third film with Chris Pine as Captain Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Mr. Spock, Star Trek Beyond, is in production, so one natural question to ask is, will the franchise ever revisit to the Next Generation era?
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But those were heroic things. As a classically trained actor, P.Stew is a master of rhythm.
Viewers may see parallels with Piers Morgan and CNN. We’ll give the subpar Blunt Talk a little bit more rope to hang itself with because of the man at the center of the proceeding.
Patrick Stewart: The basic idea immediately appealed to me. I used to be speaking about this with Jason. For example, he gets his personal valet Harry (Adrian Scarborough) to clear out the men’s room at an airport so he can use it in peace (“I do not share a loo with anybody”), but is crippled by the injustice of the toilet automatically flushing the seat protector before he can sit down, literally crying out over the emotional pain. “My favorite episode is ‘Inner Light.’ It was a handsome script, which for me was nearly entirely located away from the Enterprise – and it’s crew”, Stewart said.
Blunt has quite a colorful private life – he’s caught with a transgender prostitute in a vehicle in the first episode -but to the public, he’s serious journalist whose ambition, Stewart said, is to make a better world.
But the network had avoided comedy because Albrecht felt the genre was overcrowded. Happily for us, the producers chose comedy. Around that time, he heard about MacFarlane’s new project.
Jonathan, what led you from Patrick Stewart to Walter Blunt? And for a show that bears his name, Walter Blunt needs to be a strong, interesting character. That was a reference to “The Larry Sanders Show”, the landmark HBO comedy from the 1990s about a neurotic talk-show host played by Garry Shandling. The show makes admirable attempts to build out the world beyond Blunt, and the effort yields some dividends. Walter does coke, goes to AA (he strongly considers cutting back on his drinking), has sexcapades that result in him fleeing a woman’s bedroom while her husband chases after him, and so on.
We’ve seen Patrick Stewart poke fun at himself time and again by playing against type or a heightened version of himself (his cameo on Extras springs to mind), but he absolutely shines in this notably out-of-character performance from the first scene to the last. Ames collaboratively customary the position of Blunt with Stewart.
“It happened that he lived just around the corner from me in Brooklyn”, the actor said.
“Slurping when I drink…anything.”
“I had never been in that situation before, where from the absolute raw start I was being invited to contribute”. With that in mind, lets not rule out the possibility of seeing Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) or Worf (Michael Dorn) walk into the life of Walter Blunt anytime soon.
Even in these early episodes, when most writers would be finding their footing, Ames already has a knack for lines that fit Stewart’s rhythm.
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Indeed, the actor prepared for his latest role as thoroughly as he might for the part of a Shakespearean hero. For me it’s ancient history. Blunt Talk sends up the greedy news media – at one point Gardner exclaims to Blunt, “Almost dying?”
