Stewart died one day earlier, on Thursday, at 86. Me,” said Saulnier during his introduction to the movie. He had no business doing this movie.
He had plenty of opportunities otherwise.” His star power revitalized the production when it was “at the point of no return,” and no one had been cast as Darcy Banker, the skinhead leader Stewart ultimately played. Then, “Patrick Stewart, out of the blue, sort of expressed interest in the project,” said Saulnier. I left the stage, ‘Maybe we’re gonna have to break down the sets and shut the whole movie down.’ He continued: “Instead, this dude came out of nowhere, from way above our sort of zone, and just swooped down, nosedived into our cruddy ass movie and saved us, and said yes.
And the movie was instantly greenlit; we moved forward. And I thank him for just taking that leap and making ‘Green Room’ a thing.” Saulnier remembered the actor as a “fucking sweetheart, true gentleman, a kind leader to our whole cast,” and recounted his idea to add “a little something” to one scene: “I was like, ‘What is it, Patrick?’ He’s like, ‘Well, during this one part of the scene, when the camera’s coming through there, I’d like to say, “Fuck!” And I was like, ‘And?’ ‘Just fuck.’ Permission granted, sir,” Saulnier recounted. He was best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and as Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films, among many other film and TV credits.
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