GoKawiilArs Technica staff pay tribute to actor Patrick Stewart
Ars Technica staff members shared recollections of actor Patrick Stewart, best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films. The piece recounts how Stewart landed the Picard role in his late 40s after a TV producer saw him teaching a Shakespeare master class at UCLA, and includes Sir Ian McKellen's Instagram remembrance of Stewart's decision to take the Star Trek role despite risks to his UK stage career.