Sir Patrick Stewart shows off his quarantine pastime: jigsaw puzzles

Sunny Ozell and Sir Patrick Stewart appear on The Graham Norton Show

Sir Patrick Stewart’s latest appearance has a “life imitates art” quality to it. At the start of Star Trek: Picard, the former Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise D was spending time on his vineyard, not really doing much, except maybe adorably chatting to his doggo in French. Cut to now, and one could argue that there’s a bit of that Picard in a lot of us. Except the dog part because I don’t have a dog and my French is, well, a bit merde. 

So just how is Stewart passing his time IRL? Completing jigsaw puzzles. 

The 79-year-old actor appeared last week on the BBC’s Graham Norton Show. The site Metro out of the UK says Stewart and his wife, Sunny Ozell, showed off a few of his most recent projects.

“We’re super fortunate,” Ozell told Norton. “He’s doing his puzzles and I’m doing some cooking and we’re catching up on television.”

Stewart held up one such puzzle and explained, “This is one of my finished puzzles as you can see. It’s actually framed because I framed them all.”

Stewart is one of thousands if not millions of people turning to jigsaw puzzles as a way to pass the time while quarantined over concerns about coronavirus. Earlier this month, CNBC reported that puzzle maker Ravensburger has seen sales jump a staggering 370% year on year. Still, doesn’t just a bit of you wish that the actor behind one of Starfleet’s most iconic captains was - perhaps - building a ship in a bottle?

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