Bonnie Ewan's turned all ginger!

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Oh no! Scottish scruff Ewan McGregor has not only turned gay on his female fans but ginger as well!

But don't worry, the Trainspotting actor and co-star Jim Carrey were just playing out their roles on a 'romantic' boat trip on the set of new film, I Love You Phillip Morris.

The pair play a pair of gay cellmates, who fall in love in a new film based on the true story of a Texan convict.

In this scene, the two stars are filmed during a fumbling man on man moment aboard their dinghy, bobbing off Florida Keys.

Carrey was left with his legs sprawled in the air and his pants around his ankles, as McGregor looks on suspiciously.

Source: Metro.co.uk

Thanks to Kimmy for the heads up!

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Thursday, May 1, 2008 // 07:36 p.m.

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Legend of the Motorcycle's concours d'élégance

April 30, 2008
By Susan Carpenter

Legend of the Motorcycle enters its third year with an emphasis on the first word of its name -- the legendary riders who have ridden many of the bikes on display and the award-winning builders who have used those motorcycles as inspiration in the present day.

Taking place Saturday at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, Calif., the country's premier concours d'élégance of motorcycling features 250 bikes that span the sport's history, from its bicycle-frame beginnings in the late 1800s to mid-century cafe racers and the customs of today, such as Jesse James' new Airstream sidecar bike.

MV Agusta and Norton are the featured marques for 2008. There will be 40 bikes from each manufacturer, including the ex-works MV Agusta that Giacomo Agostini raced on the Isle of Man and Reg Pridmore's Norton racer.

In addition to the bikes, there will be two exhibits -- a collection of photos from Ewan McGregor's recent Long Way Down tour and a display of Dainese racing suits that includes Agostini's leathers and the cutting-edge biosuit the company co-created with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a future NASA mission to Mars.

The six-hour event is topped with a Bonhams & Butterfields auction of 200 items: half motorcycling memorabilia and half bikes, including a 1940 Indian Sports Scout owned by Steve McQueen, a 2004 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail owned by Evel Knievel and a 1967 Triumph TR6R Bud Ekins tribute bike.

Source: LA Times

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 // 05:36 p.m.

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Forces join forces for charity

By Lesley Bates

Ewan McGregor, James Blunt and Ozzy Osbourne are among the big names backing the Big Salute, the military's own version of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day, which will run from May 4-11.

A new annual fundraiser on BFBS TV and radio, the Big Salute is designed to encourage British Forces communities around the globe to raise money for five nominated service charities.

BFBS radio and television entertain troops overseas but Big Salute organisers are very keen to encourage UK forces to get involved.

A special Big Salute launch show will be streamed live on the web from 6.45pm on Sunday so supporters here can watch and take part.

Broadcasts will continue for the rest of the week on BFPS Radio, and can be heard on Sky Guide 0211 or online.

The five charities to benefit will be BLESMA (The British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association), Combat Stress, Headley Court, Veterans Aid and St Dunstan's.

BFBS television controller, Helen Williams,said: "We want to encourage all members of the British Forces community to join in with our campaign.

"Normally, those back in the UK miss out on BFBS Radio and TV events - that's why we're streaming the TV show live on the BFBS website and urging everyone in the UK who wants to "salute" our Forces to watch, join and listen to BFBS Radio for charity auctions and so on."

For more information on the Big Salute and to watch the streamed launch, visit www.bfbs.com/big salute.

Source: Salisbury Journal

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 // 05:32 p.m.

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Watch and listen to interviews with Ewan online

First, we have Ewan on Front Row, which aired on BBC Radio 4. You can listen online at bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/, it is Thursday's show and it will be available until next Thursday (May 1). Thanks to mckiki!

Next, we have an interview with Ewan that aired on GMTV. We don't know how long it will be available.

It can be viewed online at gm.tv. Thanks to Viv!

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Saturday, April 26, 2008 // 09:26 a.m.

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Hugh's anectdote

Hugh tells the story of Ewan filming several sex scenes back-to-back. It's worth watching this clip!

Source: CBS News

Thanks to ParisRouge for the heads up!

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Friday, April 25, 2008 // 07:51 a.m.

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Ewan McGregor in negotiations for Angels and Demons

Apr 24, 2008
by Nicole Sperling

Casting of Sony Pictures' Da Vinci Code prequel Angels and Demons is shaping up quickly (Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer will play the lead female role). Ewan McGregor is in negotiations to take on the role of Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca, the Pope's closest aide, who helps Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) with his investigation. McGregor, who will be seen in Fox's Deception, opening Friday, is currently filming I Love You Philip Morris opposite Jim Carrey.

Angels and Demons is being directed by Ron Howard from a script by Akiva Goldsman. Brian Grazer and John Calley are producing. Filming is set to begin in Europe in June, with a May 2009 release date.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Thanks to ParisRouge for the heads up!

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Friday, April 25, 2008 // 07:20 a.m.

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Ewan McGregor says cancer scare was 'no big deal'

Tuesday, 22 Apr 2008

Ewan McGregor has revealed he had a mole removed after a doctor discovered "a little skin cancer" beneath his right eye.

The Star Wars actor has explained that medical experts advised him to have the growths removed after he had been for a routine check-up.

Talking to the BBC (click here to see the interview) while promoting his upcoming erotic thriller Deception, the 37-year-old said he is now fine and that the mole removal is "not that big of a deal".

"I just went to have them checked, you have to be careful if you're pale skinned and you spend time in the sun, with moles," he explained.

"So I went to see a specialist who thought they were better to be removed and indeed he was correct."

When asked if he had been at all frightened by his brief experience with the disease, he joked: "It was great fun having skin cancer, it was great, I really enjoyed it."

As well as starring alongside Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams in Deception - set for UK release on Friday April 22nd - the Scottish actor is currently working with Jim Carrey on I Love You Philip Morris.

However, he dismissed suggestions that some critics had dubbed the dark comedy 'Brokeback Prison', due to its tale of male inmates in love.

"That's putting it in a box before it's even started being made," said McGregor.

"It's a story about two men who are in love, so in that respect - Brokeback Mountain was a film about two men who are in love. There the similarity ends, I would say."

Source: inthenews.co.uk

Thanks to Fuumin for the heads up!

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 // 07:39 a.m.

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Two clips from Deception online

IGN has two scenes from Ewan's Deception, which opens on April 25. Click on the link to watch them!

Source: IGN

Thanks to Barb for the heads up!

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Friday, April 18, 2008 // 09:36 p.m.

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New Deception poster and stills

Source: Ropes of Silicon

Thanks to Fuumin for the heads up!

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Thursday, April 17, 2008 // 07:38 a.m.

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Leading man Ewan's embarrassing slip-up

16 April 2008

Ewan McGregor takes a break during filming of Incendiary

Film star Ewan McGregor was in Islington shooting his latest movie - but admitted to a watching student that the finer details about his character's role had slipped his mind.

Final shooting for new flick Incendiary took place in Northampton Square, Finsbury, chosen for the dramatic contrast between the tower blocks and period houses. In the movie Ewan plays a reporter - but he admitted to a bystander that he didn't even know whether his character was a tabloid journalist. A member of the production staff had to step in to remind him his character worked for the Daily Express, a typically tabloid paper.

Onlooker, student Iain Withers, 20, said: "It was quite funny. He was telling me that he plays a rather sleazy journalist, a bit of a toe-rag, when he checked himself and asked a woman whether his character was a tabloid journalist or not. She said, 'Of course he is, he works for the Express!' He said 'I really should have known that shouldn't I?'"

Mr Withers added: "The movie had already been filmed and they were in post production just re-doing a scene, so it's a bit alarming he doesn't know he's been playing a tabloid hack all this time. You expect actors to be a bit more switched on when they have been living a character 24-7."

The film's producer Andy Patterson heaped praise on the architecture of Islington, which he thought was perfect for the role.

He said: "Incendiary is about how London is built from the wreckage of itself - so you have tower blocks built in holes that Hitler bombed cheek by jowl with expensive houses.

"We scoured all over London to find something that photographically combined things as beautifully as that does.

Source: Islington Gazette

Thanks to walkingguide for the heads up!

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Thursday, April 17, 2008 // 07:23 a.m.

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Ewan McGregor talks about his new erotic thriller Deception

April 12, 2008
James Bone

Driving through the main gate at New York's Steiner Studios feels rather like entering Guantanamo Bay prison camp. A guard checks your identity and raises the security barrier. Ahead lies a vast car-park that was once a parade ground, dotted with newly built hangars. The similarity with Guantanamo is no coincidence. Though just across the river from Manhattan's famous skyline, the Steiner Studios lie in the old Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Deception, Ewan McGregor's new erotic thriller, is being shot on a sound stage in one of the glass-and-steel hangars, and the Scottish star has a busy schedule ahead of him. Over the next two days, he is to film a montage of sex scenes that requires him to get it on with five different actresses - none of whom he has met before.

The director has left the sex scenes until the last two days of the seven-week shoot. McGregor, looking very American in black jeans, a striped jersey, a baseball cap and baseball boots, seems, if not downright nervous, at least preoccupied with the marathon of sex scenes on which he is about to embark.

“They're interesting. I've done a lot of them. I try to find something about them that is realistic,” he explains. “There are Hollywood glistening sex scenes, and I'm not very interested in them. I don't think they're very interesting to watch... I think sex isn't like Hollywood sex. It's very often many things, but it can very often be awkward. In these scenes, they're strangers, so they can be embarrassing. And things don't just go off like they do in a Hollywood movie. I think finding those moments that make it real makes for the audience a much more erotic experience, or a much more powerful experience, because you recognise things you do yourself, or things that have happened to you.”

Despite his family role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, McGregor has earned a reputation as one of the few male actors who will happily shoot full frontal nudity, dropping his trousers for explicit scenes in Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine, The Pillow Book, and Young Adam.

McGregor, 37, the married father of three daughters, argues that nakedness is a part of life that deserves to appear on screen. “I'm not inhibited to take my clothes off in movies, because I think movies are a reflection of life, and in life we are naked a lot of the time - at least I am,” he says.

In Deception, billed as a “seductive psychological thriller”, McGregor plays the solitary Wall Street auditor Jonathan McQuarry, who is lured by a flashy New York lawyer called Wyatt Bose, played by Hugh Jackman, into a high-priced sex club known simply as “The List”. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman known only as “S”, played by Michelle Williams, who is kidnapped.

“The whole idea about this character is that he is being born. That he is becoming alive having been dead. At the end, there is a line. Wyatt says to him, 'You were dead already, and I gave you life,'” McGregor explains. “In a sense he is right. He suddenly has this glamorous alpha male guy who wants to be his friend. Through that, he makes a step forward out of his detachment. And through the sex clubs, the sexual experience, he is further brought out. And then he meets “S” and falls deeply in love. And it almost completes his journey into being a human being from having been a very detached, cut-off guy.”

As an actor, McGregor found the key to the character in the casual revelation that the auditor was brought up as a single child by his mother, who died when he was 19. “That one line of dialogue did it all for me,” he says. “It doesn't always happen. Always with characters, there are character types you can play. But it's much more interesting to find out why people are the way they are. People refer to him as 'being nerdy', and 'he's a nerd'. It's not very helpful for me to hear. I find it much more interesting not just to play a nerd, but to find out why he's so detached.”

Deception is shot in a noir-ish style - much of it in New York night-scenes - by the first-time director Marcel Langenegger and Dante Spinotti, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer of LA Confidential and The Insider. Langenegger, an energetic, floppy-haired Swiss man in a black T-shirt, blue jeans and boots, is an established commercial and music-video director who has lived in Los Angeles for the past decade. He described making his first feature films as “like running a marathon”. “I was always interested in storytelling. In commercials or music videos you always have a little story to tell,” he says. “If you break down the movie, it also is made out of little pieces. The moment that something happens is actually small. The moment is a brick; a short film or a commercial is a wall; and a movie is a whole house.”

As well as co-starring Jackman, Deception is also being co-produced by the Australian actor, known for his role as Wolverine in the X-Men series. But while McGregor is tense about his upcoming sex scenes, his co-star cracks jokes about them.

“One of the girls rang up because the day had been rescheduled. She rang up and said: 'What's the matter, am I not...?'” “They said: 'No, no, no. The day has just been pushed'. She said: 'I just want you to know I'll do anything, and I'm really flexible'. I said: 'Marcel, I know this is your first movie, but I don't think she was talking about the scene!'”

Deception is released nationwide on April 25.

Source: The Times

Thanks to Barbara H. for the heads up!

Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Saturday, April 12, 2008 // 09:13 a.m.

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