Star Trek: Picard’s Jonathan Frakes joins Sir Patrick Stewart for a dramatic reading of one of Shakespeare’s sonnets
Jonathan Frakes and Sir Patrick Stewart read Shakespeare’s sonnets
While Star Trek: Picard is waiting to get going on the physical production of season two, its star, Sir Patrick Stewart, is keeping himself busy with a little Shakespeare, by reading a sonnet a day on Instagram. He started the project back in March, with Sonnet 1, and he’s now well into the 50s.
Occasionally, Stewart deviates from the program. He read Sonnet 73 between Sonnets 25 and 26, in honor of Sir Stirling Moss, the British racing driver who passed away on April 12th. And he occasionally breaks up the sequence with intermission videos from his wife, Sunny Ozell, singing in historical structures in England.
But this week, he deviated from the everyday with a sonnet read by a guest: his Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard co-star, Jonathan Frakes. Seated on a patio and responsibly distanced across a large table from one another, Stewart introduced Frakes as he read. Stewart captioned the video, “Pleased to share that we have our first guest sonneteer today. Socially distant yet always a close friend, @jonathansfrakes performs Sonnet 57. #ASonnetADay”
The video is still available to watch on IGTV, as are the previous 56-ish. Go and follow Stewart on Instagram and be sure not to miss the next 100-ish...There are 154 in total.
