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Patrick Stewart at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in 2015.Billy Farrell—BFAnyc/Sipa USA  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Aug 20, 2015 2:03 PM UTC Between the sci-fi universe of _Star Trek_ and the mutant powers of _X-Men_, its there anything fans haven’t seen Patrick Stewart do on a screen? Try getting wasted behind the wheel, snacking on marijuana chocolate and finding himself in a compromising position with a transgender prostitute. That all goes down in his new Starz show _Blunt Talk_, which premieres Aug. 22 and finds the English actor boldly going where he hasn’t gone before: raunchy television comedy courtesy of _Family Guy_ mastermind Seth MacFarlane and _Bored to Death_ creator Jonathan Ames. Stewart plays Walter Blunt, a British journalist who works in American cable news and has one messy personal life. “The professional side of the show fascinates me. Then there’s everything else: chaos, confusion, romance, excitement, alcohol and other substances!” Patrick Stewart excitedly tells TIME. “I’ve done comedy before, but never under these circumstances.” **TIME: This is your first-ever TV comedy series, apart from guest roles. What inspired the change?** **Patrick Stewart:** I worked with Seth MacFarlane on _American Dad!_ and loved that experience. Playing Deputy \[CIA\] Director Bullock opened up opportunities for me I just hadn’t had before. Playing an obnoxious, loud, opinionated, vulgar-minded, self-obsessed character was just fantastic. And fun! So when Seth came to me over two years ago and said, “How would you like to do a half-hour live action comedy?” I said yes! Conversation over! **Your most iconic roles—Captain Picard in** **_Star Trek: The Next Generation_** **, Professor X in the** **_X-Men_** **films—are quite saintly. In the first episode of** **_Blunt Talk_** **, Walter drives drunk, gets high and picks up a prostitute.** He does mean well. He’s a very serious and committed and responsible journalist—in his professional life. He believes in the power of media to change the world. That’s admirable. I certainly support that. However, he has personal problems in relationships, with alcohol, with some illicit substances, and he just can’t get his life right. But because he’s essentially a serious and decent man, it makes the outrageousness of the comedy sequences that much more fun to play. There is so much potential in that scene for something distasteful to happen. Instead, the scene has a sweetness and charm about it. **That’s the opposite of what I was expecting from a show where Seth MacFarlane executive producing.** Of course. And that’s wonderful—Seth brings to the table a whole lot of stuff which may or may not be in the series. People associate that name with outrageous, outlandish, and sometimes deeply private and personal comedy. Instead, Gisele \[[played by Trace Lysette](http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/04/15/after-years-hiding-hollywood-trans-actress-trace-lysette-finally-liv)\] tells him upfront that she’s transexual, they have a conversation about the fact that she has a penis, and it’s a very tender scene, and it’s important and meaningful to Walter. There is no better example of the scale and complexity of \[_Blunt Talk_ creator\] Jonathan Ames’ writing, that you can take a scene that has all the potential for huge amounts of offense, and yet it doesn’t. **Are you a news junkie yourself?** All my life. My very first job when I left school when I was 15 and two days old—I didn’t drop out, it was the end of my schooling—was working on my local newspaper. I was the most junior reporter on staff. All I got to do were deaths, births and marriages. It was not rewarding, although I did get to see a lot of dead bodies. In the community I grew up in, it was commonplace that they were laid out in their home. Often I would go and knock on a door and talk to someone about their spouse who had died. Invariably, because this was the style of my community, they would say, “Would you like to have a look at her? She looks really lovely.” I was 15! One morning I saw three dead bodies before lunch and when I went back to the newsroom and said, “I don’t think I can do this.” I’m addicted to newspapers. I can’t throw a newspaper out until I looked at every single page. I will be getting on a flight to Los Angeles tomorrow with a pile of unread newspapers in my hands. So the chance to play a television newsman with a nightly cable news show was instantly attracted to me. The professional side of the show fascinates me. Then there’s everything else: chaos, confusion, romance, excitement, alcohol and other substances! Having that as a background for the character was so liberating. I didn’t get much of a chance to do work like that on _Star Trek_ or _X-Men_ or in my earlier career, which involved a lot of Shakespeare. I’ve done comedy before, but never under these circumstances. **You shadowed Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow to prepare for the role. What did you take away from the experience?** Both Rachel and Jon were incredibly generous. I approached them asking if I could be a fly on the wall for a whole production day, from the first production meetings to the post-mortems that certainly happen on _The Daily Show_ after tapings. They let me sit in on their meetings and observe how the evening show is constructed. Those people work so hard and so tirelessly. Often, it’s the details. In the production offices, there are children’s drawings everywhere. People have families—their children do drawings, and they stick them up. That was an idea I took back, having my grandchildren and my friends’ children do drawings and paintings. They’re now on TV. **Proponents of cable news say it’s a force for good, while critics say it’s just an echo chamber. Where do you stand?** You’re right—depending on what station you tune into, you can find news and entertainment that is very much policy-driven. Fox is the best example. It has a point of a view and attitude, and it sticks to it. Then you see things like _The Daily Show_ that have a totally different approach. It’s no longer hammering over one particular political point of view, but rather examining everything, holding it up for exposure, which Jon Stewart has done brilliantly all these years. Telling the truth about what a situation means, not putting a slant on it or a political twist, just saying, “This is how it is,” without any bullsh-t. That’s refreshing, and that’s the type of newsman Walter wants to be. His current idol is probably Anderson Cooper. He has his eyes set on being another Anderson Cooper, and indeed Anderson gets more mentions on the show than anybody else, though Bill Maher and Bill O’Reilly get several mentions too. I’m hoping we can get some of these people on the show. **When Piers Morgan’s CNN show was canceled, he suggested that perhaps America wasn’t keen on watching British journalist engaging with hot-button U.S. issues. After working on this show, and because you live in the U.S., what’s your perspective?** I found it very refreshing to watch Piers’ show, and he and I had breakfast together and had a long conversation about his experience. He was fascinated by _Blunt Talk_. I would love to have Piers on the show. But yes, it’s an interesting perspective. One of the things that has always impressed me about the American system and its way of life is its generosity. They absorbed Piers for a certain amount of time, and I’d like to think our fictitious audience could absorb, tolerate and even respect Walter in the same way because he is trying to speak at all times the truth and instruct his audience to live in the most open and fair ways. **You’ve been a part of an superhero series that’s successfully reinvented itself over 15 years. With the recent** **_Fantastic Four_** **reboot’s poor box office performance, a lot of people are wondering if superhero fatigue is setting in. Are we getting to that point, or are there lessons to learn from** **_X-Men_** **?** People will always go and see them. We’ve had a significant presence of science-fiction and fantasy on screens, and some of it has been extraordinarily good, and I include the _X-Men_ series. Fashions change, tastes change, and something else will come along. It’s what makes the lives of us who work in the business so interesting. We’re not stuck in a formula for entertainment. **You’ve actively embraced social media. When the best way for actors to promote an upcoming project is to go viral—like your dramatic reading of Taylor Swift did—do Twitter and Instagram ever stop feeling like fun and start feeling like work?** It did not, for me, start out as wanting to have some fun. I was dragged kicking and screaming into the world of social media. It was my PR company that said, ‘You’ve got to do this. It’s essential that you involve yourself in this way.’ I was very excited when I sent my first tweet and within a couple hours got a dozen followers. One big thing served to change it: I tweeted about a personal experience I’d had with Time Warner \[Cable\], and that blew up when I discovered that there were thousands of people all along the Eastern seaboard of the United States that felt the exact way I did—that I had lost the will to live. It opened my eyes for the first time to the power and influence of social media. For things I’m passionate about, left-wing politics, domestic violence, human rights, I’m very active with an organization called Combat Stress which deals with veterans and PTSD, and I can represent those organizations through my social media presence and do some good with them. On top of that, it has provided me with a huge amount of fun. The fun that Ian McKellan and I had promoting our two plays on Broadway, that was an idea my wife and I dreamed up over Mexican margaritas one night. It was one of the most significant, if not most significant, aspects of our promotional campaign for those plays. It was seen by more people than anything else. And it cost _nothing_. ### _Mad Max: Fury Road_  Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron star in Mad Max: Fury Road Jasin Boland—Warner Bros. In a summer full of CGI dinosaurs and robots, _Mad Max: Fury Road_ proves that action blockbusters can still be the sort of high art that gets a standing ovation at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Director George Miller not only perfected the form, building the rickety fire-shooting vehicles from scratch, but adds narrative heft, taking on serious issues like sex slavery in a nuanced way. _—Eliana Dockterman_ ### _It Follows_  IT FOLLOWS, from left: Lili Sepe, Maika Monroe, 2014\. ©RADiUS-TWC RADiUS-TWC As a premise, “pretty teen girl running from certain doom” may not sound like the makings of an inventive horror film. Yet David Robert Mitchell’s indie sensibility makes the movie unlike any thriller you’ve seen before, while still paying homage to the best traditions of the form. _—Sarah Begley_ ### _Far From the Madding Crowd_  FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, Carey Mulligan, 2015\. ph: Alex Bailey/TM & copyright © Fox Searchlight. All rights reserved Alex Bailey—Fox Searchlight The new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel appeals to the _Pride and Prejudice_ set, but with more subtlety and sadness than most Austen films, plus a hearty heaping of rustic drudgery. Carey Mulligan’s gutsy Bathsheba gets swept off her feet like the best of her 19th century romantic peers, but without their usual histrionics—somewhere between _Lean In_ and _Wuthering Heights_. _—Sarah Begley_ ### _Love & Mercy_  LOVE & MERCY, (aka LOVE AND MERCY), Paul Dano, as Brian Wilson, at drums: Kenny Wormald, as Dennis Wilson, 2014\. ph: Francois Duhamel/©Roadside Attractions Roadside Attractions Paul Dano fulfills the promise of roles in _Little Miss Sunshine_ and _There Will Be Blood_ as a young Brian Wilson, the Beach Boy who’s going slowly mad while recording the group’s landmark album _Pet Sounds_. John Cusack shows us the older Wilson, now paralyzed by overmedication at the hands of a villain. It’s a gripping story of mental illness, which is sadly all too common, and true musical genius—which is extremely rare. _—Sarah Begley_ **MORE** [The Top 10 Best Movie Performances of 2015](http://time.com/collection-post/4134970/top-10-best-movie-performances/) ### _Furious 7_  FURIOUS 7, (aka FAST & FURIOUS 7), from left: Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Paul Walker, Ludacris, 2015\. ph: Scott Garfield/©Universal Pictures Scott Garfield—Universal Each _Fast & Furious_ movie has gleefully attempted to outdo the previous one. Brought down a plane in the last movie? How about making cars fly out of one in the next? While _Furious 7_ doubled down on its self-consciously corny lines and over-the-top stunts—crashing cars through not one, not two, but three high rises—it also took a moment to give a surprisingly moving send off to star Paul Walker, who died in 2013\. While he will be missed, this increasingly diverse franchise has a bright future. _—Eliana Dockterman_ ### _Ex Machina_  EX MACHINA, Alicia Vikander, 2015\. ©A24 A24 Alicia Vikander’s breakout year hinged on her spooky turn as a robot who may or may not have motives of her own. But this sci-fi thriller got its thrust from the creepy bond between the two men obsessed with Ava: tech billionaire Oscar Isaac and humble employee Domhnall Gleeson. _—Dan D’Addario_ **MORE** [The Top 10 Best Movies 0f 2015](http://time.com/collection-post/4134913/top-10-best-movies/) ### _Clouds of Sils Maria_  CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, Kristen Stewart, 2014\. ph: Carole Bethuel/©IFC Films IFC Films Freed from _Twilight_, Kristen Stewart showed flashes of both savage intelligence and newfound sensitivity as the personal assistant to Juliette Binoche’s pampered, neurotic actress. The film works as both insider moviemaking satire and an enigmatic tribute to intergenerational bonds between women. _—Dan D’Addario_ ### _Welcome to Me_  WELCOME TO ME, Kristen Wiig, 2014\. ph: Suzanne Hanover/©Alchemy Suzanne Hanover—Alchemy Kristen Wiig, at her best, has always had a far more barbed edge than her comedy contemporaries; there’s real bite, and pathos, to her most memorable characters. Add Alice Klieg to that pantheon. Wiig commits utterly to the story of an ill woman who spends her lottery winnings on a five-day-a-week talk show dedicated to praising herself and shaming her enemies. It works as comment on our media age, but soars as a portrait of suffering that only Wiig could make hilarious. _—Dan D’Addario_ ### _Dope_  Open Road Films Writer-director Rick Famuyiwa’s tale about a nerdy black teen obsessed with ’90s hip hop culture rejects the trappings the typical coming-of-age flick, starting with its setting: Inglewood, Calif., otherwise known as “The Bottoms.” Newcomer Shameik Moore’s portrayal of Malcolm, who’s stuck between his ambition for a spot at Harvard and the whac-a-mole of obstacles that keep popping up to thwart him, thrusts the rising star into the well-deserved spotlight. _—Eliza Berman_ ### _Me and Earl and the Dying Girl_  ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL, (aka ME,& EARL & THE DYING GIRL), from left: Olivia Cooke, Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, 2015\. ph: Anne Marie Fox/TM & copyright © Fox Searchlight Pictures. All rights reserved Fox Searchlight Pictures Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s adaptation of Jesse Andrews’ young adult novel is a love letter to his late father and a tribute to the cinema greats who professionally reared him—and the movie’s labor-of-love origins are felt throughout. Though its plot, in which a high school senior is forced by his parents to befriend a classmate with leukemia, begs comparisons to _The Fault in Our Stars_, the movie defies categorization as a typical teen cancer rom-com by keeping its quirky protagonists in the realm of friendship. _—Eliza Berman_ ### _The Boy Next Door_  Universal No, you didn’t stumble onto the list of worst movies so far, and no, this wasn’t included to make a larger point about how _The Boy Next Door_ is the rare thriller that lets a middle-aged heroine objectify a _dude_ for a change. (In that way, it’s basically the “I Luh Ya Papi” video of thrillers.) _The Boy Next Door_ gets its due here because the cheap twists and unintentionally laugh-out-loud dialogue (first edition of _The Iliad_, anyone?) made for one of the most deliriously _fun_ theater-going experiences of 2015. _—Nolan Feeney_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4001156/patrick-stewart-interview-blunt-talk/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4001156/patrick-stewart-interview-blunt-talk/"},"headline":"Patrick Stewart On Blunt Talk's 'Outrageous' Comedy and Why He Loves Twitter","datePublished":"2015-08-20T14:03:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:00.996Z","description":"The actor talks to TIME about shadowing Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow and whether America is getting tired of superhero movies","url":"https://time.com/4001156/patrick-stewart-interview-blunt-talk/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7169093ce1f6bded/69885fb65f570f0c69b1cf77/patrick-stewart-interview-blunt-talk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7169093ce1f6bded/69885fb65f570f0c69b1cf77/patrick-stewart-interview-blunt-talk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"VANITY FAIR OSCAR PARTY 2015 - Red Carpet Arrivals","caption":"VANITY FAIR OSCAR PARTY 2015 - Red Carpet Arrivals","creditText":"Billy Farrell—BFAnyc/Sipa USA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4001156/patrick-stewart-interview-blunt-talk/","name":"Patrick Stewart On Blunt Talk's 'Outrageous' Comedy and Why He Loves Twitter"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Top 5 Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Masterpieces","description":"Steven James Snyder, Techland's resident movie geek, outlines the top 5 most under-rated sci-fi movies of all time","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/xe99vdU4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2010-01-11T22:26:40.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/xe99vdU4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4001156/patrick-stewart-interview-blunt-talk/","duration":"PT4M45S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4001156/patrick-stewart-interview-blunt-talk/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```