We break down the season 3 premiere of StarTrekPicard with Captain Shaw himself, ToddStashwick, as he recounts the experience of working with StarTrek The Next Generation icons:
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 3's premiereTodd Stashwick not only joins Star Trek: Picard season 3 as a brand-new starship captain, but he commands the screen opposite Star Trek: The Next Generation legends Patrick Stewart as Admiral Jean-Luc Picard and Jonathan Frakes as Captain Will Riker.
Todd Stashwick Discusses Star Trek: Picard Season 3's Premiere Screen Rant: I want to congratulate you on joining Star Trek. Was it a relief when the trailer dropped? And then Terry [Matalas] tweeted out your character's name? In terms of a meta sense, my influences to play this character, and many characters, don't always come from the thing itself, right? Like, I wasn't going to ape Patrick Stewart or ape Shatner or ape Janeway. That was not the goal. The goal was to play this guy with his story, his circumstances, his relationships, and play that as authentically and truthfully as possible. And then me as an actor, my influences come from all over the place.
They're not behaving like Starfleet Officers, which is something I'm actually writing an article about. Shaw is right, because Riker and Picard are lying. They came aboard to hijack his ship and bamboozle him. And so, Shaw is smart enough to go, "I need someone who doesn't see things exactly the way I see them." So in spite of her reckless behavior, he kind of needs that. You need that voice. Ultimately, she can offer up like, "We need to do this X, Y, Z" when they're on the bridge and question his choices so that maybe he can reconsider. And there are moments when you actually watch him reconsider and do things that Seven offers up.
Now, do you have that personal actor insecurity where you go, "I do want to nail this. I do want to feel prepared. I do want to have done my homework. I do want to make sure that I honor the writing and make sure that I honor my scene partners." So yeah. In the moment, because they're so connected, and they're performing. I was never like, "Oh my God, I hope I don't screw this up." They were just playing the scene, and I was just playing the scene.
Todd Stashwick: I'm having a blast with that. I mean, some people are like, "He doesn't make it out of act one." I mean, it stands to reason when you have these legacy characters. I get why they're saying it. Ultimately, I think they will be pleasantly surprised to come on the ride and experience the journey of this character.
I was like, "Oh, okay. Okay. I can just go home now. We're good." I was never treated -- and nobody was, again, the entire crew. Everybody was treated like we are the family of this show. Everybody was honored. Everybody was treated. It wasn't like we're the new cast and this is the legacy cast. The legacy cast was us and we were them. And it was such a little -- I get verklempt thinking about it -- We made some special together.
You've come full circle in Star Trek, and now you're back. You're back at the highest level possible. There's nothing bigger than Picard. I think what he brings is: "I want to move an audience in the way that I was moved". And so, "These are the things that I feel are essentially Star Trek." I think Terry's love of the military aspect, the ranks, just going from the boatswain whistle introducing captains, to the whatever you have. You feel the chain of command. You feel that sort of reality of Starfleet, and I think he brings that. He also brings a tremendous sense of cinema.
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