Patrick Stewart in drag gets compared to Helen Mirren

Satec 20, 2025

LONDON -- Sir Patrick Stewart is normally a pretty easy-to-recognise guy -- with his distinguished gray beard, bald head and twinkling eyes, the former space captain wouldn't be hard to pick out of a line-up.

That wasn't the case on Monday night, though.

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While presumably getting into character for an episode of his sit-com Blunt Talk, Stewart tweeted the following picture of himself.

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Twitter went into meltdown.

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A good few people mentioned Helen Mirren.

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All in all, though, most people couldn't get enough of it.

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It's impossible to deny -- those eyebrows really are on fleek.

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