Ewan McGregor: acting is ‘all I ever wanted to do’ (THE BOSTON GLOBE)

‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ is his latest challenge

 By Judy Abel | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT MARCH 04, 2012NEW YORK -

It would be easy for Ewan McGregor to settle into romantic leading man roles.

After all, his magnetic blue eyes, winning smile, and easy manner kind of scream “love interest.’’ But the 40-year-old Scottish actor is not looking to be typecast. Instead, he says, he loves challenging his acting skills with diverse and surprising work.

 “I would never want to find a niche where I would just repeat myself,’’ says McGregor on a recent morning at a midtown hotel. “The joy of acting is that you get to play other people - I don’t just want to play a version of myself.

McGregor’s roles include a self-destructive heroin addict in “Trainspotting’’ (1996), Obi-Wan Kenobi in the “Star Wars’’ prequel trilogy (1999, 2002, 2005) and a gay convict opposite Jim Carrey in “I Love You Phillip Morris’’ (2009). And last year he starred with Oscar-winning Christopher Plummer in “Beginners,’’ where he played a young man whose world is shaken as he copes with the news of his father’s homosexuality and cancer.


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