Sir Patrick Stewart answers Playboy’s 20Q

Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Picard

Sir Patrick Stewart is the most recent celebrity to take part in Playboy Magazine’s 20Q.

The feature does what it says on the tin: it’s a question-and-answer format, 20 in total. The piece is also accompanied by a series of stunning pictures of the Star Trek: Picard star with some rescue dogs from Wags and Walks adoption center in Los Angeles.

Among the questions posed to Stewart by Playboy were about his experiences with cannabis (he’s a campaigner for the legalization of marijuana), his love for rescue animals (he and his wife, Sunny Ozell, foster pitbulls), and his close relationship with Sir Ian McKellen (Stewart insists both he and Ozell are “in love” with him).

Playboy also touched on Stewart’s support of the women in the #MeToo movement, and why Stewart feels that support of the movement by high-profile men has been lacking. Stewart replied saying that he doesn’t think most men believe it. “The way male superiority has become part of our lives,” he said, “is very subtle and complicated. But it exists, and it’s now changing—some think not quickly enough.”

At the very end of the piece, Playboy asked Stewart whether the claim he made in his last 20Q session was still true: has he still vowed not to appear in public as Picard, or use Star Trek: The Next Generation catchphrases? Stewart said, “No, I’ve relaxed significantly about that. It would be weird—I mean really [messed] up—if I was still, “No, no, no, no, I won’t say ‘Engage!’”

You can read the rest of Stewart’s 20 questions now on Playboy.com, and of course, you can see him as the title character in Star Trek: Picard, now streaming.