10 Star Trek Actors Who Suffered From Typecasting

Sir Patrick Stewart has had, and continues to have, a highly successful, award-winning career spanning a variety of roles — from just about every character in Shakespeare to the Poop Emoji. However, like all of the captains in Star Trek, perhaps more so because he was only the second, Stewart is always and forever Jean-Luc Picard.

No doubt Stewart's second most iconic role was in yet another franchise behemoth. In a 2015 radio interview for KPCC's The Frame, Stewart admitted that he had been "reluctant" at first to take on the Marvel role because of the pitfalls of the "close identification" with one particular character that he had already begun to feel with J.L. Stewart went on to say:

Jean-Luc Picard was who I was. I did finally get into a room to meet with a director […] [who] was doing a movie I wanted to be in as a supporting role, and we had a good meeting. At the end he said, 'Look, you're a terrific actor, and I would love to have you in my movie, but why would I want Jean-Luc Picard in my picture?'

That incident left Stewart feeling understandably hurt, and he even left Hollywood shortly after. For the longest while, Sir Patrick wasn't intent on playing Picard ever again. As he said in his memoir Making It So, "I had very much enjoyed being Jean-Luc and kept him close to my heart. But. I was done with him." Thankfully, he was persuaded otherwise.