My meeting lasted about six minutes, and then it was perfectly clear I was not wanted in that room any time longer.
It was very odd with Gene because I was dragged in to audition for him in his living room the morning after I’d been seen doing something at UCLA.
Somewhere in the cellar of Paramount Pictures, there’s a Post-it note which says, ‘I do not want to hear Patrick Stewart’s name mentioned again ever! signed Gene Roddenberry.
It was clear he couldn’t understand why I was there.