Can you imagine Captain Jean-Luc Picard with hair on his head? Well, neither do I. Moreover, this character’s appearance is so characteristic that without it he would not stand out from other characters. Meanwhile, it turns out that the producers of the series initially assumed that the captain was supposed to have this hair, even if the actor doesn’t normally have it.
Captain Jean-Luca Picard in a wig
Patrick Stewart described in his book the day he went to audition for “Star Trek”. Apparently, before he boarded the plane, he received a call asking if he had any wigs. The actor, of course, confirmed it, because due to his baldness, he sometimes wore artificial hair for auditions.
“I was on my way to Heathrow Airport when my London agent called my then-wife Sheila and told her that the people at Paramount were asking if I had a wig. And if I had one, could I take it to the audition?” Sheila urgently took out her wig. she packed my ‘audition wig’ from the closet into a box, and then a British Airways representative picked it up and put it on a later flight to Los Angeles,” Patrick Stewart confessed to the publication “Making It So.”
At the request of Paramount producers, Patrick Stewart put together a wig and appeared in it during the casting for the selected role. Later he went to the dressing room, where after a while studio representatives appeared. They were curious about what the actor looked like without a wig and whether it was actually necessary. Was not. Captain Jean-Luc Picard was bald for all 178 episodes of “Star Trek” and today it is difficult to imagine that it could be otherwise.
Source: Gazeta
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