Earlier this week, beloved actor Patrick Stewart died following his battle with Alzheimer’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.
“He has been held in the warm embrace of family and friends, surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, laughter and the kind of profound emotion that only he could inspire after a lifetime of devotion to us all,” publicist Bush Novak wrote in a statement. “We will forever cherish the peaceful ease and reflection on his face, an enduring reminder of his invincible grace.”
As fans mourn his passing, they’re reflecting on his legendary career by watching his seemingly endless catalogue of movies and TV shows. While he starred in a number high-profile superhero movies, it’s a more understated – and yet terrifying – role that fans are gravitating towards this weekend.
‘Green Room’ No. 1 on Streaming
The 2015 action, horror, thriller film Green Room starring Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots, has been rising in the streaming ranks in the days since Stewart’s death. As of Saturday morning, it was the No. 1 movie on streaming, according to Just Watch.
“At the end of their low-budget tour, a punk band accepts a gig at an isolated rural club, only to discover that their hosts are a supremacist group,” reads the synopsis of the movie by Netflix.
The leader of that white supremacist group? None other than Patrick Stewart in a surprising twist for the audience, who grew up with Stewart’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard or Charles Xavier – also known as Professor X.
“Darcy Becker is a bad guy,” Stewart remarked in promo for the film. “He’s a really bad guy. And I have to be honest and say that I think it was that aspect that seduced me.
“I was sitting in my house in West Oxfordshire, and I settled down on a Saturday evening to read this script. I found it to be a page-turner! And it scared the [expletive] out of me. I was alone, in my house; at some point in the story I poured a large scotch, because it was so unsettling, that sense of being in a situation, surrounded by people you can’t reason with. If it does this to me, when it’s on screen, it might really have a lot of impact.”
Green Room owns an impressive 90% from critics and 75% from the audience on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie can be streamed on Netflix.
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