Everyone seems so surprised that The Emoji Movie is getting four steaming Poop Emojis from critics everywhere, with a rating of 6% on RottenTomatoes (and that marks a critical rally of sorts).

Really people, what's to be expected from a movie about digital image thingies attached to text messages (even with the insane antics of T.J. Miller)?

But thespian Sir Patrick Stewart getting cast as Poop Emoji and then talking as if it's the role of a lifetime, now that's funny.

We're not bragging here...okay, we're bragging ... but we were the first to bring you Sir Patrick Stewart, master thespian, talking about being cast as Poop — a role right up there with his great Shakespearean tragedies.

Sir Patrick totally owned his Poop Emoji role as he explained getting the first call from his agent about the part.

(When you read this aloud to loved ones, use a plummy British accent, it makes it even funnier).

Sayeth Stewart: "First of all, they said that there is to be an Emoji Movie in which emojis are the main characters. And there’s a role they are very interested in you playing. I was immediately alert because I use emojis myself, of course. I said, "Well, tell me, which one is it? I am intrigued." Then I was told, "Well, it’s the role of Poop." They quickly went on to say that this is one of the most popular emojis, in the top five. That wasn’t necessary, I had no hesitation to saying yes."

Then Stewart copped to using the Poop Emoji when texting his Sir and Dame friends. "I have been using it much more now because I consider it personal publicity for the film," Stewart said. "You do whatever helps, don’t you? But I am very careful to whom I send it." Always thinking of decorum, even with Poop Emojis, that Sir Patrick.

He naturally was willing to dive deep, Daniel Day-Lewis style, and go coarse, even "uncivilized," in playing the Poop part.

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But the American producers wanted to make it all upper-crust posh. Ah, Americans.

"It was put to me that this might be a rather cultivated Englishman," said Stewart. "I was charmed by the idea that he was, in fact, a very cultivated and rather tentative individual."

Sir Patrick was not concerned that BFFs like Queen Elizabeth might think he was slumming and bringing down the name of Knights of The Realm everywhere. "I haven’t heard anything from the palace, so I’ll assume they are not perturbed."

They're probably too busy barking at Sir Anthony for Transformers: The Last Knight. Your time will come.

But in the ultimate humor kicker, Stewart said his grandkids thought he was the GOAT.

"My grandchildren howled with delight when they were told their grandfather, Sir Patrick, was actually going to be playing Poop Emoji. I think it gave them great street credibility."