In his new book, Making it So: A Memoir<\/em>, the actor recalled the difference in acting styles and on-set behavior between him and his co-stars such as Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, and Denise Crosby, per The Hollywood Reporter. <\/strong><\/p>\n His co-stars would irritate Stewart when they would use improv or tease the actor, and one time it was enough to get him to storm off.<\/p>\n “I could be a severe bastard,” said Stewart.<\/p>\n “My experiences at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre had been intense and serious,” he recalls in his book.<\/p>\n “On the TNG<\/em> set, I grew angry with the conduct of my peers, and that’s when I called that meeting in which I lectured the cast for goofing off and responded to Denise Crosby’s, ‘We’ve got to have some fun sometimes, Patrick’ comment by saying, ‘We are not here, Denise, to have fun.'”<\/p>\n Stewart noted that now, “me included,” everyone thinks that the story is quite humorous, but at the time he was not so impressed.<\/p>\n “But in the moment, when the cast erupted in hysterics at my pompous declaration, I didn’t handle it well,” continued Stewart.<\/p>\n “I didn’t enjoy being laughed at. I stormed off the set and into my trailer, slamming the door,” he revealed.<\/p>\n Stewart revealed that Frakes and Spiner came to console him, where they said that he “misjudged” the situation and that “people respect you.”<\/p>\n “He and Jonathan acknowledged that yes, there was too much goofing around and that it needed to be dialed back. But they also made it clear how off-putting it was \u2014 and not a case study in good leadership \u2014 for me to try to resolve the matter by lecturing and scolding the cast,” wrote Stewart.<\/p>\n “I had failed to read the room, imposing RSC behavior on people accustomed to the ways of episodic television \u2014 which was, after all, what we were shooting.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/images.toofab.com\/image\/de\/5by4\/2023\/04\/20\/de468c1be40e4dc69a3f741209eab019_xs.png\")
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