{"id":61013,"date":"2026-10-30T07:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/ian-mckellan-pens-long-note-as-tribute-to-patrick-stewart\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:40:51","slug":"ian-mckellan-pens-long-note-as-tribute-to-patrick-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waqtdiawaz.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/ian-mckellan-pens-long-note-as-tribute-to-patrick-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellan pens long note as tribute to Patrick Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As everyone mourned the death of legendary actor Patrick Stewart<\/a>, his long time friend and actor Ian McKellan<\/a> penned a long note as tribute.<\/p>\n

Ian, who worked alongside Patrick in the X-Men<\/i><\/a> films, took to Instagram and shared a photo of Patrick. He began his note by acknowledging that Patrick \u201cwas defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire\u201d. \u201cYou could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love,\u201d Ian said.<\/p>\n

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Remembering their first meeting fifty years ago as young actors working with Royal Shakespeare Company, where they didn\u2019t work in the same production, Ian said, \u201cMy first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in \u2018Star Trek\u2019. \u201cBut Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk\u2014getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?\u201d.<\/p>\n

Also Read: Patrick Stewart: Five facts about the \u2018X-Men\u2019 actor<\/a><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ian added, \u201cWell, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes (\u2019X-Men\u2019 of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London\u2019s West End and on Broadway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ian further said that America was Patrick\u2019s adopted home. \u201cBut he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire,\u201d Ian wrote.<\/p>\n

Ending the note, Ian said that Patrick\u2019s farewell performance in the upcoming \u2018Avengers: Doomsday\u2019 is yet to be seen.<\/p>\n

Patrick died on October 28, 2026 at his Los Angeles home. He is well-known globally for starring in Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i> and Star Trek: Picard<\/i> as well as his iconic role in the X-Men<\/i> franchise. For stage, he worked for a long time with the Royal Shakespeare Company and on Broadway and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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