Here is a statement from Patrick Stewart about the porject:
“My long-term memory is very strong. It only needed me to turn the key on day one for the door to be open and memory after memory after memory and sensation and sensation and feelings all came scuttling back.”
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Patrick Stewart grew up without a toilet or a bathroom in his home, sold furniture as a young man, worked up the rungs of regional theater in England. He eventually did a 14-year-run with the Royal Shakespeare Company and film and TV stardom in Los Angeles.
A statement from the actor on his experience writing the memoir:
“It’s been a very therapeutic experience,” Stewart says in the interview of writing the book. “I know that my therapist is one of the people who is most looking forward to the book. I know I’m going to be hearing, ‘Why didn’t you tell me this?’”
Stewart’s father, a former regimental sergeant major in the British Army who was prone to outbursts of repeated violence against his mother. Stewart writes about how he and his older brother, Trevor, braced for nights when their dad came home drunk and angry. “Sometimes it was with an open hand, other times a closed fist. Always he aimed for her head.”
Stewart wonders if the violence sprung his career: “The stage would prove to be a safe space, a refuge from real life in which I could inhabit another person, living in another place and time,”
Here's more statements from Patrick Stewart on writing the memoir :
“I wanted to be honest, but I wanted to be so respectful and careful as well. That was the most challenging part of the experience: How much I should say. What should I not say? It’s almost guaranteed that someone is going to come out and say, ‘How dare you? That’s outrageous.’ Well, I’ve brought it on myself. But I did take it very, very seriously.”
Here is the goodreads synopsis of Making it so:
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart!
From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. 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.
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