How ‘Logan’ Convinced Patrick Stewart He Could Return to ‘Star Trek’

Jean-Luc Picard was the one role Patrick Stewart thought he would never play again. And if it wasn’t for James Mangold and Hugh Jackman, he probably never would have put that Starfleet badge back on, which he wore for 7 seasons on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and four feature films. Stewart starred alongside Jackman in Mangold’s “Logan,” where he played a way-past-his-prime, 90-year old version of Charles Xavier, the leader of the X-Men known for his unlimited hopefulness. But this was a starkly different take from what fans of the original “X-Men” were used to; in “Logan,” Stewart portrayed a hollowed out, broken-down Xavier. That experience convinced him to return after nearly 20 years to “Star Trek,” beginning Thursday with the debut of CBS All Access’ “Star Trek: Picard.” Also Read: 'Star Trek: Picard' Season 2 Confirmed by CBS All Access “I brought up ‘Logan’ at my second meeting [with the producers] and talked about the impact that had on me,” Stewart told TheWrap. “I got some inspiration from the fact that Hugh had really encouraged the story of ‘Logan’ should follow the line that it did. He wanted it to go downhill and crash and burn. I was...

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