I’m not sure how much of this is loyalty from Patrick Stewart and how much is real, but he has praised the movie in a recent interview, even raising the script above the other movies.
Cinematical carries the story from Dark Horizons, saying that Stewart had a lot of positive things to say about Brett Ratner and how he had to come straight into the production and hit the ground running.
He said that Ratner put an enormous amount of pressure on the cast and crew, so much so that Stewart found himself working from six at night till six in the morning towards the end of shooting. Not for nothing, but isn’t that normal for an actor?…
…”The script, I believe, is the best script of the three. It’s very intense, it’s very emotional, it’s very personal about the individuals that we’ve already got to know in the first two movies. It has some astonishing set-piece sequences. It has a number of quite significant deaths. [From] what I’ve seen so far, I think, it’s likely to be extraordinary.”…
Well I agree with Cinematical there, nothing unusual for an actor to be working that amount of time. Yet the comments about the script are promising. Combined with the trailer this really has lifted itself up in my estimation…still not tremendously excited, but interested. How about you, do Stewarts words help?
