Appreciation: Patrick Stewarts 70-year career stretched far beyond 'Star Trek' and 'X-Men'

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Set us as preferred Unless you’re writing for a major national magazine or shooting video for Architectural Digest, it’s rare for a reporter to be invited into a celebrity subject’s home.More likely, it’ll be some neutral space like a publicist’s office, or coffee shop, or hotel room; even more likely, over the phone or Zoom.

But Patrick Stewart, when I interviewed him in 2023 at the end of “Star Trek: Picard,” the “The Next Generation” sequel series in which he starred, asked to meet at his house.Stewart, who died Wednesday at 86, was 82 then, friendly and dapper and emanating a youthful sense of wonder and readiness.He spoke of wanting to learn to play the piano and speak French — ironic for an actor perhaps best known as Jean-Luc Picard.

He had written a memoir, “Make It So,” titled for a Picard catchphrase.And he was excited about the house, located on a leafy, McMansion-free, comparatively modest street in what real estate agents would call Hancock Park, where he’d been living with his wife, Sunny Ozell, since just before the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.“We were safe,” Stewart said of the COVID days.

“We felt protected here.It was just a walk that way or a walk that way to some shops.

I walk to a little post office and my pharmacy is on 3rd Street, and I always take the backstreets.It’s a fabulous neighborhood, it really is.

No two houses are the same.I mean, I never thought I’d live in a house that had just got archways everywhere — no doors! Sitting here, you see one, two, three, four, five, six archways.” Television Patrick Stewart will be best remembered for the iconic characters he portrayed, particularly in the ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ franchises, but over the course of his career, he proved his versatility, playing comedic roles as brilliantly as his dramatic ones...