Patrick Stewart thought Tom Hardy was odd on the set of Star Trek: Nemesis

Patrick Stewart thought Star Trek; Nemesis was weak, and the actor chosen to play Shinzon was solitary.

In his new memoir, Making it So: A Memoir, Patrick Stewart recounts memories from the filming of Star Trek: Nemesis, calling the plot weak. [via Trekmovie] He said he didn’t have a single, exciting scene to play, and beyond that, he found it challenging to establish any kind of rapport with Tom Hardy, the young actor playing the film’s villain.

Hardy stayed in his trailer with his girlfriend when he wasn’t needed on set and didn’t have anything to do with the cast on a social level. Stewart went on to write that Hardy didn’t even greet the cast or say goodbye at the end of the day.

Patrick Stewart didn’t think Tom Hardy would ever be heard from again.

And Hardy’s interaction with the cast didn’t change when he wrapped his role.

"“On the evening Tom wrapped his role, he characteristically left without ceremony or niceties, simply walking out of the door. As it closed, I said quietly to Brent [Spiner] and Jonathan [Frakes], ‘And there goes someone I think we shall never hear of again.’ It gives me nothing but pleasure that Tom has proven me so wrong.”"

Tom Hardy has gone on to have a successful career, but he told The Guardian in 2009 that he’s never felt comfortable in his own skin, which could have had a lot to do with how he didn’t interact with anyone while filming Nemesis.

And after the movie tanked, Hardy took a dive deep into drugs and alcohol that cost him his marriage. And he’s grateful it didn’t cost him his life. Thinking his 2002 breakout role was going to lift him to stardom, he crashed and burned when it didn’t and admitted he was lucky he didn’t have some “terrible accident or end up in prison or dead.”

Fortunately, Nemesis wasn’t the end of Hardy’s or Stewart’s career. Both survived the fallout of the box office failure, and Stewart was happy to be proven wrong about the potential for Hardy’s future.