Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor
Ewan Gordon McGregor, OBE is a Scottish actor. His first professional role was in 1993, when he won a leading role in the Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar. He is best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting, the young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, poet Christian in the musical film Moulin Rouge!, and Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 March 1971
CityPerth, Scotland
When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.
Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.
I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.
My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.
Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.
It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.
I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it.
My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.
There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.
I've sort of done a play every four or five years I guess if I look back in my career. And I think that's good.
I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.