Noraa said she grew up watching Sir Patrick in X-Men and that she watched his Macbeth performance while she was studying the play.<\/p>\n
She said: “How could someone so famous be from this really small town?<\/p>\n
“It makes me feel quite proud of where I’m from and I also feel honoured to be going to the same place that he did, the place that he grew up.”<\/p>\n
Packard, who took Sir Patrick round the school on during a visit in 2011, said the actor was “really quite emotional” when he saw the stage he performed on 60 years previously.<\/p>\n
“This was the very first stage that Sir Patrick acted on,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He was really generous with his time. He talked extremely well to the students and some of our drama students did actually perform for him, which must have been really nerve-wracking for them.<\/p>\n
“But then he spent an awful lot of time taking photos, talking to them about his career and really giving that advice that was so valuable from him.”<\/p>\n
Packard also said Sir Patrick left with a special gift.<\/p>\n
“I mean, what do you give a Hollywood star as a gift? So, we thought well let’s give him part of the stage.<\/p>\n
“We took up part of the stage behind me here and we made it into a plaque and etched it with a quote from The Merchant of Venice, which was the first thing he acted here.”<\/p>\n
In a tribute following his death, the school said it was “privileged to have been part of his story” and described him as “a warm, friendly, compassionate and charismatic gentleman who left a last impression”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noraa said she grew up watching Sir Patrick in X-Men and that she watched his Macbeth performance while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-822608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}