Ewan McGregor speaks about his family

By Lee Brown

Ewan McGregor gives an intriguing insight into his home life, admitting: 'I don’t live my life for my family, but we live our lives together.”


The father-of-four told US magazine Nylon Guys that his wife of 16 years, Eve Mavrakis, is 'my best friend'.
 

'She’s the person I discuss everything with, so of course she’s hugely a part of my experience,” he says in the January issue of the magazine.
 

But the Haywire star goes on to say that he doesn’t want to be perceived as a family man.
 

He says: “I wouldn’t like to read that my family has to be grounding me [sic]. I hate people writing things like that. Because at the same time, my work is still quite heady and wonderful and weird…

'I don’t live my life for my family, but we live our lives together.”
 

The Star Wars actor also spoke about the UK film industry, saying: 'I don’t feel any need to support it. I was always work in British stories because I am British and I’m drawn to them, but I don’t feel any special desire or need to make a British film every year because there were years when they didn’t support me, you know?'
 

He adds: 'What really annoys me is during Oscar season, everyone gets really wrapped in that title. Then it’s on the front pages: ‘BRITS CLEAN UP AT THE OSCARS!’
 

“And, for one night, we get really supportive of the British, but in actual fact it’s more of a ‘stick it to the Americans’ sort of thing.
 

'It’s such hypocrisy; I find it so distasteful. I also don’t live there anymore, so I have no right to talk about it, really.”

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