Patrick Stewart: Tom Hardy ‘Wouldn’t Engage’ with Co-Stars on ‘Star Trek’ Set, but ‘He Has Proven Me So Wrong’ Since First Experience

Patrick Stewart is admitting that he did not anticipate Tom Hardy’s Hollywood career lasting more than 20 years since first working with his fellow Brit.Stewart wrote in his memoir “Making It So” (via Insider) that shooting 2002 film “Nemesis-2002-movie-posters/”>Star Trek: Nemesis” alongside Hardy created a “challenging” dynamic with the future “Venom” star, who largely kept to himself on set.“Tom wouldn’t engage with any of us on a social level,” Stewart wrote.

“Never said, ‘Good morning,’ never said, ‘Goodnight,’ and spent the hours he wasn’t needed on set in his trailer with his girlfriend.”The actor added, “He was by no means hostile — it was just challenging to establish any rapport with him.”Hardy portrayed the movie’s villain Shinzon, a clone of Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard.“‘Nemesis,’ which came out in 2002, was particularly weak,” Stewart wrote of the “Star Trek” installment.

“I didn’t have a single exciting scene to play,…

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