{"id":946771,"date":"2026-10-30T20:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946771\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T20:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T20:18:16","slug":"legendary-star-trek-actor-sir-patrick-stewart-dies-aged-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/946771\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart dies aged 86"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘A man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love’ – Ian McKellen’s tribute to Stewartpublished at 01:03 GMT<\/p>\n

01:03 GMT<\/p>\n

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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart at a film premier in 2020<\/p>\n

Sir Ian McKellen, one of Britain’s greatest actors, has shared a tribute to Patrick Stewart on social media.<\/p>\n

He recalls his “first strong memory” of Stewart as the moment he told him he was considering taking a role in the Star Trek series. McKellen advised against it, warning him to “think of his stage career”.<\/p>\n

“Well, he took the risk, and thank goodness for us all that he did…” McKellen later starred alongside Stewart in the X-Men series. The pair also appeared together in a 2009 theatre production of Waiting for Godot.<\/p>\n

The two actors were close friends. Stewart played Professor X, while McKellen portrayed Magneto in the X-Men films, but the pair had known each other since before Stewart’s television breakthrough in Star Trek.<\/p>\n

McKellen said Stewart \u201cnever 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.<\/p>\n

Stewart “told you what he thought and felt,” McKellen wrote. “He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and, in my case, love.”<\/p>\n

The two frequently expressed their affection for each other during red carpet interviews. McKellen also officiated Stewart’s wedding in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘A man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love’ – Ian McKellen’s tribute to Stewartpublished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-946771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}