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Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence — The Guardian
- Key
- stewart2009guardian
- Authors
- Stewart, Patrick
- Issued
- 2009-11-27
- Type
- article-newspaper
- Container
- The Guardian
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Claims
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Stewart described the stage as an escape from home, but said he feared portraying anger until the director Ronald Eyre cast him as Leontes in The Winter's Tale in 1981.
"I managed to find my own refuge in acting. … It was not until 1981, when the director Ronald Eyre asked me to play the psychotic Leontes in The Winter's Tale, that the breakthrough came."
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Stewart's father was a regimental sergeant major who was among the last men evacuated from Dunkirk, parachuted into Crete and Italy, and fought at Monte Cassino.
"a regimental sergeant major no less. One of the very last men to be evacuated from Dunkirk … Parachuted into Crete and Italy, both times under fire, he fought at Monte Casino and was twice mentioned in dispatches."
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Stewart became patron of Refuge, a UK domestic violence charity, in 2007.
"Which is why, in 2007, I became patron of Refuge, the national domestic violence charity."
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From the age of seven, Stewart repeatedly witnessed his father's violence against his mother; police and ambulancemen called to the house blamed his mother, and no adult intervened.
"As a child I witnessed his repeated violence against my mother … week after week, year after year, from the age of seven. … I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, "She must have provoked him," … No one came to help."
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