Patrick Stewart Knighted

By Mark Lorenz on December 30th, 2009

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If there’s anyone on this earth that deserves to be knighted, nay, canonized, it’s Patrick Stewart. Not only is he an incredible actor, his voice has more layers of sexy than a twelve-layer cookie. Which probably doesn’t exist. But who cares? Patrick Stewart’s been knighted.

Now he can join all the other incredibly dignified Shakespearean actors who share that distinction. Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Ian McKellan, Sir Tobey Maguire. The list goes on. But Patrick Stewart deserves it for never, ever being boring. I can watch him in anything, from playing a pompous gay man, an eccentric mutant professor, to a hilariously self-absorbed actor in Extras. As always, Stewart was humble.

This is an honour that embraces those actors, directors and creative teams who have in these recent years helped fill my life with inspiration, companionship and sheer fun.

Although, if he were being knighted, I would want him in full Shakespearean costuming. No-one sounds better doing Shakespeare than Patrick Stewart. Except Ian McKellan. Maybe they can have a classy actor-off sometime, just stare each other down over a chessboard. That already happened? Maybe they can out-monologue each other. I’d pay to hear either of them read a Chinese take-out menu.

So congratulations, Patrick Stewart. Even though you don’t really need them, because you’re already the king of the known universe. The final frontier. The British empire.