Patrick Stewart discusses his desire to understand why Whoopi Goldberg agreed to join the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Patrick Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg are close friends but when she joined the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1988, Stewart needed to understand why an Academy Award nominee and Hollywood star wanted to join Star Trek.
In an interview with The New Yorker, Patrick Stewart played a game where interviewer Michael Shulman dropped a name and Stewart told a story about that person. When Whoopi Goldberg's name came up, Sir Patrick told a story of how he approached the Academy Award nominee with his need to understand why she joined the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Read his quote below:
In Season Two of “Next Generation,” I was informed that Whoopi Goldberg was joining the cast. She had just been nominated for an Academy Award. I thought, Why would she want to join a sci-fi series that’s already been running for a year? And she was lovely—warm and friendly, and, of course, amusing. One day, they were lighting a scene or changing scenery, and she was sitting alone. So I sat beside her and said, “Whoopi, I don’t understand why you agreed to do this.
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