Patrick Stewart Needed To Understand Why Whoopi Goldberg “Agreed To Do” Star Trek
Summary- Patrick Stewart was initially curious about why Whoopi Goldberg joined Star Trek, but he was won over by her warm and friendly nature.
- Goldberg's personal connection to the original Star Trek, particularly the presence of a Black woman in the cast, is what motivated her to join The Next Generation.
- Stewart and Goldberg have since become close friends, bonding over their shared experience in the Star Trek universe.
In an interview with The New Yorker, Patrick Stewart played a game where interviewer Michael Shulman dropped a name and Stewart told a story about that person. When Whoopi Goldberg's name came up, Sir Patrick told a story of how he approached the Academy Award nominee with his need to understand why she joined the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Read his quote below:
In Season Two of “Next Generation,” I was informed that Whoopi Goldberg was joining the cast. She had just been nominated for an Academy Award. I thought, Why would she want to join a sci-fi series that’s already been running for a year? And she was lovely—warm and friendly, and, of course, amusing. One day, they were lighting a scene or changing scenery, and she was sitting alone. So I sat beside her and said, “Whoopi, I don’t understand why you agreed to do this.” And she told me the story of when she was a child, what the original “Star Trek” had meant to her, with Leonard Nimoy and Bill Shatner. And she said, “There was also a Black woman in the cast [Nichelle Nichols]. And it made me think, One of us must have made it.” It was her presence not just in the role but in the future—one of us is going to make it. I loved that. And we’ve become close friends ever since.
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