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
Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.
I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.
I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.
Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.
I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.
If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.
I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.
I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.
No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.