Patrick Stewart totally crushes it.

Fry & Laurie did a great send up of this kind of discussion: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4Clh2p6iJtoiZo

To be a student actor in his presence. Man o man.

Here McBeth is summing up his entire world view. It’s the only place in the English language where a man sums up his entire philosophy of his life in one paragraph.

".. That was great David.. but now I want you to imagine that you're an ice-cream seller who has lost all passion for his cornets.. Then we'll move on to Hamlet on roller-skates.."

So much indulgent over analysis for something that is made so obvious by the words. It isn't the actor that makes the text its the playwright.. all the audience knows that for goodness sake! Modern day actors and directors, suffused with half-cocked notions from Freud and the rest of the rolling pageant of psychobabble have become utterly obsessed with novelty takes.

Twelfth Night My favorite of all of the Bard's plays.

Wizard you shall not pass cut sir ian sir ian sir ian

Ur cool Ian good looking man ❤❤🎉🎉

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Some think this speech is now overused and hackneyed. This rendition returns it to its pristine glory.

It's Steven Fry surely. Doing a satire on a Shakespearian masterclass.

What a in-depth analysis, You missed a point in “walking shadow” ; “shadow” can be broken into two parts shad and ow and ow emphasizes the pain of macbeth in like how he says OW, it also shows how depressed he is in how he can’t anymore get women to like him like lady macbeth did.

Thank you Sir Stewart for showing us how a real captain runs a starship.

He said Hamlet, not Macbeth when examining that first line....

DONE

*HE LOOKS THE SAME*

Patrick Stewart was in his 30s in this video... what!?? This is so strange, he aged rapidly but then stayed young forever 🤔. I'm so confused.

He must be gay.

terrific reading thank you for uploading.

This video made me fall in love with Shakespeare's work again.

Wow! What a waste Poirot was for David Suchet?

Who would have thought Maggie Smith with short hair would be so handsome

Watching Picard season 2. It’d be fun to show 1978 Sir Patrick what he’s up to in 2024. I wonder what he’d think of Locutus of Borg?

The production in the 60s with Dorothy tutin was superior

Anyone fancy a pint?

Every so often I think about time in my life that could have been spent absorbing his stories and images with the quality of English of that era, along with the form of communication. Come to now. Cut the clutter. Convey.

It's crazy that Gandalf was an actor in his younger days

I was very impressed by Pacino’s portrayal of Trevor Nunn.

That performance at the end really made everything else he said make sense. That blew me away

Is Patrick a vampire? He looks the same in 1979 as he does now.

Spellbinding.

First time i seen this. I love how he put himself in third period. Said it as a narrative and explaining it. Sir Ian McKellen is great.

His soliloquy performance feels a lot like the soliloquy in the end of Bladerunner. Also brilliant.

Gandalf the young

Good job Gandalf

The first half of his career was intellectually satisfying. The second half, lucrative.

Luvvie waffle 😅

I disagree with sir Ian mckellan on some points, but I think that's part of the beauty of reading it and the context yourself in your own lived experience, you're going to arrive at different conclusions to anybody elses

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I saw his Widow Twankey at Stratford. Simply mesmerizing.

Far be it for me to re define Shakespeare but that's not what I feel it all means. We are but walking shadows... already dead. Actors on a stage no more... finished/ gone/ had our 15 mins. A fools story... despite how dramatically its told essentially worthless.

How does he act so well?

Ian I've really enjoyed watching you strut and fret across the stage

Jokes aside, he does appear old but it is scientifically remarkable that his hair was that grey and in that condition at age 39

Proof that if you’re handsome enough you can have the same style as your great grandfather and still look great lol

Patrick Stewart sitting at the back sporting a beard

Wow

One of my favorite lines of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Data, you're here to learn about the human condition, and there is NO BETTER way to do that than by embracing Shakespeare!" From the cold open of "The Defector"

I just read Sir Patrick Stewart writing about Sir Ian’s advice to him before Patrick played in Macbeth (Ian having been the big hitter in this play for years) and Ian had just said “AND….it’s all about the and”. Then , only 10 minutes after putting my book down for the night to pick up my phone and check YT and have this pop up. The soliloquy reminds me of memorizing it in college getting my English degree, then the sparkle in both of these actors eyes when they act together. I absolutely love how they bring Shakespeare to life, and these insights here. It is as if Ian has looked right into Shakespeare’s mind and understood the very essence of what he created hundreds of years ago. And these are sentiments we all can connect with today.