Patrick Stewart wanted readers to hear his voice
CBS News revisits his memoir interview as Vladimir Duthiers remembers the warmth behind the familiar screen authority.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 221,034 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (18,738).
Remembering Sir Patrick Stewart, what set him apart as an actor
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- 0:16The career overview connects Stewart's Shakespearean work with Picard and Professor Xavier.
- 0:50An archival memoir interview introduces Stewart's wish for readers to recognize his voice on the page.
- 1:38Stewart recalls his modest childhood home and the reading habit that began when he was young.
- 2:28Duthiers holds up his annotated memoir and remembers Stewart's warmth and generosity.
- 5:13Duthiers recalls Stewart's humor and an invitation to ride with him in Cannes.
Vladimir Duthiers holds up an annotated copy of Patrick Stewart's memoir, Making It So, as he remembers an actor whose generosity extended beyond their interview. Among his memories is Stewart inviting him to share a car in Cannes, a small gesture that stayed with the CBS Mornings co-anchor.
CBS News's tribute follows the announcement that Stewart has died at 86. It acknowledges the roles that made him recognizable across generations, Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men, alongside his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company. But its most revealing passage returns to Stewart explaining how he approached writing.
In their 2023 interview, Stewart said he had never written a book before. His ambition was not to sound grander on the page: "The one thing I had an ambition about was that my voice would be recognized."
He recalled becoming an avid reader as a young child, growing up in a modest home without hot water or an indoor bathroom. The account brings the memoir back to the boy discovering books, rather than the actor already familiar to millions.
The tribute drew roughly 88,000 views in six hours, an unusually fast start for a regular CBS News upload. Duthiers's recollections give that remembrance a personal focus: the humor, conversation and invitations that continued when the formal interview was over.
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- CBS News
- Subscribers
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- Channel views, last 7 days
- 12,947,410
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,938,951 (on a normal day: 2,480,550)
- Video published
- October 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 87,712 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 221,034
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The extended remembrance drew an unusually large early audience. CBS News's separate Short announcing Stewart's death also started well above its usual Shorts pace.
