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January 22nd, 2008

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Professor X, Patrick Stewart from 20th Century Fox Geeks love casting geek movies.  One of the biggest debates for the X-Men movie revolved around Wolverine who had every gruff actor linked to him at one time or another.  But one hero took no argument or thought.  Possibly the greatest comic movie casting ever, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, a.k.a. Patrick Stewart, earned the part of X-Men mentor Professor X.  Fans who once had serious concerns over the movie’s unproven director and leather costumes could be reassured with this single piece of flawless casting. 

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7 greatest geek performances | Prodigeek says:
May 12th, 2008 at 11:36 am

[...] When geeks thinking balding and brilliant, every thought goes directly to Patrick Stewart. After almost a decade of captaining the U.S.S. Enterprise, Stewart was a geek icon with gravitas and acting chops like none other (the man does Shakespeare). So when we needed a bald and brilliant man to play Professor Charles Xavier, every geek thought when to Patrick Stewart. This casting was so perfect, it’s even a Geek-Out Moment. [...]

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