Showing posts with label obi-wan kenobi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obi-wan kenobi. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Ewan McGregor Wears Kilt to Receive Order of British Empire, Would Be "Up for" Role in Porno (E!) by Rebecca Macatee
Ewan McGregor was honored Friday at Buckingham Palace with an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his contributions to film and charity.
A place on Queen Elizabeth II's honors list is very highbrow, so the 42-year-old Star Wars hunk telling reporters he'd be up for a role in Porno seemed a bit odd. But that doesn't mean quite what you think…
McGregor starred in 1996's Trainspotting, the Danny Boyle-helmed film based on Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name. Boyle has recently spoken about making a sequel to the famed flick, based on Irvine's book Porno, and McGregor is interested, to say the least.Clearly, though, McGregor values the films—and traditions—of his past. The Scottish actor wore a red-and-green-tartan kilt, paired with knee socks and a tie and jacket.
"I didn't have to think about it, that was always what I was going to wear," he said. "If you don't wear your kilt here, I don't know where you are going to wear it."
Monday, April 15, 2013
Ewan Mcgregor - Ewan Mcgregor Honours Baby Daughter With Tattoo Tribute 15 April 2013 (CONTACT MUSIC)
When the Moulin Rouge! star and his wife Eve Mavrakis welcomed Anouk he turned to celebritytattoo artist Kat Von D for another inking.
Opening up about MCGregor's project in her new book, Von D explains, "When Ewan decided to get his tattoo, the idea was to use things about him that were never going to change...
"He already had a tattoo with the names of his wife and three daughters but when they added a fourth girl to their family, he wanted to incorporate her name into the tattoo.
READ MORE: http://www.contactmusic.com/news/ewan-mcgregor-honours-baby-daughter-with-tattoo-tribute_3606042
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Ewan McGregor - Happy Birthday March 31
Ewan Gordon McGregor, OBE is a Scottish actor who has had success in mainstream, indie, and art house films.
Born: March 31, 1971 (age 43), Perth
Height: 5' 10" (1.79 m)
Spouse: Eve Mavrakis (m. 1995)
Children: Jamiyan McGregor, Clara Mathilde McGregor, Anouk McGregor, Esther Rose McGregor
Songs El Tango de Roxanne 2002 Moulin Rouge
Your Song 2002 Moulin Rouge
Elephant Love Medley Come What May 2002 Moulin Rouge
Here's to Love 2003
Down with Love Choose Life 1997
Choose Life The Sweetest Gift Movies and TV shows The Impossible 2012 Trainspotting 1996 Jack the Giant Killer 2012 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen 2011 Star Wars Episode I: The Phan... 1999
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Ewan McGregor: Watch Ewan McGregor in His 1993 Film Debut ‘Family Style’ Features By Christopher Campbell on February 24, 2013 (FILM SCHOOL REJECTS)
Short Starts presents a weekly short film from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career.
Twenty years ago, a young Ewan McGregor began his acting career with a short film made for Channel 4 called Family Style. The 11-minute, black and white effort was also the directorial debut of Justin Chadwick, whose latest, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, was just acquired for distribution by The Weinstein Co. Back in 1993, McGregor still had long hair, a look you’ll find familiar if you’ve seen Shallow Grave, and was far from being a great actor. His crying scene in Family Style is pretty awful.
But look at what two decades does for a guy, going from a breakthrough role in Trainspotting to portraying a young Obi-Wan Kenobi and working with Woody Allen, Baz Luhrman, Peter Greenaway, Todd Haynes, Tim Burton, Ridley Scott, Ron Howard, Steven Soderbergh and Roman Polanski, earning two Golden Globe nominations… And now co-starring in a big budget, live-action adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk (Jack the Giant Slayer). Well, he’s mostly had great run.
READ MORE: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/watch-ewan-mcgregors-1993-film-debut-family-style.php
Friday, February 8, 2013
Alec Guinness personal letters and diaries acquired by British Library Archive of theatre knight, famed for Ealing comedies, reveal Pooterish moments and brickbats for Sir Laurence (THE GUARDIAN)
Maev Kennedy
The Guardian,
On July 12 1989, one of the greatest actors of his generation was reflecting in his diary on the death of another. If Sir Alec Guinness's thoughts/words of praise for Sir Laurence Olivier were extracted, as theatre promoters routinely do with critics' write-ups, it could read as a rave review.
The full text, revealed for the first time in the actor's personal archive just acquired by the British Library, tells a different story. In his impeccably neat tiny script, Guinness wrote of Olivier: "I greatly admired his extraordinary courage … as a comedian he was superb … technically brilliant … he was a great actor."
But he also wrote: "Like so many people whose ambition drive them to great eminence, he had a cruel and destructive streak. Side by side with his generosity, he could be unpleasant, possibly even vindictive. Consciously or not, he made attempts to destroy John G [Gielgud], [Michael] Redgrave, [Paul] Scofield and if he had been given the chance, me."
The theatre knights meet again in the library. The vaults also hold the archives of Olivier, Gielgud, and an actor of whom Guinness writes with uncomplicated affection, Ralph Richardson.
Olivier and Guinness were near contemporaries, born respectively in 1907 and 1914, and met constantly on stage and elsewhere over more than half a century.
Guinness said: "There was a touch of pretension about him, and his public speeches were fulsome and awful. I first met him in 1935, in Romeo and Juliet. We all thought he looked and behaved like the leader of a dance band. But his Romeo was as arresting and beautiful as his Mercutio was vulgar and gimmicky."
That production was famous for the fact that Olivier and Gielgud opened as Romeo and Mercutio respectively, and then swapped roles.
Guinness conceded: "Many of us were … too admiring of John to value Larry's qualities fairly." However, he then added a snide line recalling: "The sniggers that went round when he said, during a rehearsal I think, of the procession at George V's jubilee … 'I had a wonderful view of the whole corsage'."
Guinness was unforgettable in a string of classic Ealing comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters, and for his long collaboration with the director David Lean, including with the film The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957, for which he won an Oscar.
He was also acclaimed as John le Carre's spy George Smiley, in the television adaptation of the novels. However to fans of a certain age his true stardom came in the 1970s, as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy.
READ MORE:http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/07/alec-guinness-letters-british-library
The Guardian,
Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai. Photograph: Allstar/COLUMBIA/Sportsphoto
On July 12 1989, one of the greatest actors of his generation was reflecting in his diary on the death of another. If Sir Alec Guinness's thoughts/words of praise for Sir Laurence Olivier were extracted, as theatre promoters routinely do with critics' write-ups, it could read as a rave review.
The full text, revealed for the first time in the actor's personal archive just acquired by the British Library, tells a different story. In his impeccably neat tiny script, Guinness wrote of Olivier: "I greatly admired his extraordinary courage … as a comedian he was superb … technically brilliant … he was a great actor."
But he also wrote: "Like so many people whose ambition drive them to great eminence, he had a cruel and destructive streak. Side by side with his generosity, he could be unpleasant, possibly even vindictive. Consciously or not, he made attempts to destroy John G [Gielgud], [Michael] Redgrave, [Paul] Scofield and if he had been given the chance, me."
The theatre knights meet again in the library. The vaults also hold the archives of Olivier, Gielgud, and an actor of whom Guinness writes with uncomplicated affection, Ralph Richardson.
Olivier and Guinness were near contemporaries, born respectively in 1907 and 1914, and met constantly on stage and elsewhere over more than half a century.
Guinness said: "There was a touch of pretension about him, and his public speeches were fulsome and awful. I first met him in 1935, in Romeo and Juliet. We all thought he looked and behaved like the leader of a dance band. But his Romeo was as arresting and beautiful as his Mercutio was vulgar and gimmicky."
That production was famous for the fact that Olivier and Gielgud opened as Romeo and Mercutio respectively, and then swapped roles.
Guinness conceded: "Many of us were … too admiring of John to value Larry's qualities fairly." However, he then added a snide line recalling: "The sniggers that went round when he said, during a rehearsal I think, of the procession at George V's jubilee … 'I had a wonderful view of the whole corsage'."
Guinness was unforgettable in a string of classic Ealing comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters, and for his long collaboration with the director David Lean, including with the film The Bridge on the River Kwai in 1957, for which he won an Oscar.
He was also acclaimed as John le Carre's spy George Smiley, in the television adaptation of the novels. However to fans of a certain age his true stardom came in the 1970s, as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy.
READ MORE:http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/07/alec-guinness-letters-british-library
Friday, January 25, 2013
Return of the Jedi! Ewan McGregor reprises Obi-Wan Kenobi look as he grows a new beard By MIKE LARKIN (MAIL ON LINE)
It would have been quite the double take for Star Wars fans.
For actor Ewan McGregor had gone back to his Obi-Wan Kenobi look when he walked through an airport in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
It is almost certain it was the Scottish hunk who was padding through busy LAX rather than this being an Attack of the Clones however.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2267404/Ewan-McGregor-reprises-Obi-Wan-Kenobi-look-growing-beard.html#ixzz2J04Q2PCj
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Ewan McGregor to be honoured The Scottish actor will receive San Sebastian film festival’s Donostia Award
Scottish actor Ewan McGregor and Oscar-winning US actor Tommy Lee Jones will be honoured with an award in tribute to their careers at the San Sebastian film festival in Spain next month.
McGregor, the 41-year-old “Star Wars” star, will receive the festival’s Donostia Award, “awarded to a great film personality in recognition for their work and career”, at a ceremony on September 27, they said in a statement.
“Often hailed as one of the finest actors of his generation, Ewan McGregor consistently captivates audiences with a diverse line-up of roles across a multitude of genres, styles and scope,” it said.
“McGregor’s career has been highlighted by a continuous string of bold and daring performances, from his breakthrough role as the heroin-addicted Mark Renton in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, to the legendary Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars saga, to starring opposite Nicole Kidman in the musical Moulin Rouge.”
The actor’s latest film “The Impossible”, a drama based on a true story of a family’s fight to survive during the 2004 tsunami, will have its European premiere at the festival after the ceremony to award McGregor the prize.
READ MORE: http://gulfnews.com/about-gulf-news/al-nisr-portfolio/tabloid/ewan-mcgregor-to-be-honoured-1.1068611
Sunday, March 4, 2012
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.
Read further: http://bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/03/04/ewan-mcgregor-says-acting-all-ever-wanted/L7gYK85CTQrfayj8FFTFTJ/story.html
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