Ewan McGregor

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more than any other living actor today, this man gives me faith

feel free to chime in

not sure if i can handle any dissension though (really), so this is more a unanimous love thread, as opposed to a what are your true thoughts thread

I like him in pretty much anything he's in, except maybe the new Star Wars flicks (though, none of that was really his fault). I endorse this thread!

i just saw that movie "Beginners" -- it was somewhat schmaltzy, but i came away liking it a lot

I don't know if I'd fuck'em but I'd wanna make out with him after a couple glasses of single malt scotch.

still a babe, waving his lightsaber or not

i want him to talk to me about things

felt he was trying to be alec guinness too much in the star wars movies

has Michael Fassbender stolen his career or what

Oh my goodness, saw him act in a play over a decade ago at teeny tiny Hampstead Theatre, and my goodness I have never seen another man whose EYES are so damn TWINKLY.

He is v v v pretty.

Star Wars franchise obviously a huge misstep but I'm generally predisposed to him, he's been in a lot of fun stuff

think sam rockwell steals all his best roles, and prob does a better job tbh. But seems like a nice guy and all that.

pretty much classic for:

Lipstick on Your Collar (<<<<very underrated/unknown!)
Trainspotting
Down With Love
Velvet Goldmine

He's had a bit of a comeback, no, now that he's free from Lucas' Force grip. He was ideal in The Ghost Writer and terrific in Beginners.

he WAS terrific in it, wasn't he??

I like to imagine that Ewan was amongst the actors that eagerly signed up for the prequels, received the script for this one and spent weeks trying to figure out how we could get out of doing three of these damn movies.

think sam rockwell steals all his best roles, and prob does a better job tbh. But seems like a nice guy and all that.

dont want to derail the thread but he was great in "the assasination of jesse james"

everyone was great in that

apparently my brother is an extra in Beginners. I should see that

The extras were particularly great. Best extra work I've seen since Mallrats.

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I'm sorry, but can we just?

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h180/missmarpleem/Ewan/detailVelvetGoldminePDVD_412.jpg

Yeah, that.

Lipstick On Your Collar has been in reruns on one of the UK Freeview channels; I'd somehow lost track of how great he was in it and noted on behalf of Dennis Potter how big that cancer called Rupert has become, and mused on what DP would make of History Today - but I digress.

I interviewed E for a big Trainspotting feature just before the release of that film. We wandered into a cafe near the producer's office and did the interview, but hung out in the cafe for the rest of the afternoon, chilling out and talking about Scottish cities and whatever else presented itself on a Soho summer's day. He's very amiable and isn't the type to duck questions, and the good impression he made lingers to this day. Have loads of respect for Danny Boyle for similar reasons.

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When I was a little kid mr mcgregor scared me.

i've never been super impressed with him in anything, but never think badly of him either. he's a sort of relatable guy, used to like a drink, calmed down now likes to spend time with the family, "down to earth", boy next door good looks etc. the "it's shite being scottish" monologue from trainspotting was popular with folk my age, myself included. so classic i suppose.

I Love You Philip Morris was ok.

his looks are deceptively boy next door. like that's what you think, and then u wonder -

have i ever really lived next to a boy next door who looked like that? no

no i haven't

There really isn't anything boy next door about this

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u58i4qSO0Zk/TQWBiborcNI/AAAAAAAADVA/5MSfs4NYXuc/s1600/velvetgoldmine.jpeg

(I have seen far too many EMcG films because I used to live with a massive obsessive. I can't say that I recall any of the plots to any of them except VGM but we used to have a lifesized cardboard cutout of him in our living room and he is so so so pretty)

I really enjoy his motorcycle movies.

he was trying to be alec guinness too much in the star wars movies

This was the only good joke they had!

Imagine how much Iggy would've gotten laid -- like, EVEN MORE -- if he's looked like EMc in VG.

btw Iggy sneered that Ewan looked "pudgy"

I could say something very not-nice indeed about Jim in return, but I will refrain.

yeah where has this guy been?

i love him

Beginners is indeed quite good and he's quite good in it.

really like him, but hate it when he tries to do an american accent. men who stare at goats especially bad

bad actor boring guy

u have no soul

Remember him being great in that ER episode.

<3 surm

Anyone seen the motorcycle movies he's done? I've always been curious.

where he tours the world with boorman jr, or something else?

My friend had a dog that looked like Ewan McGregor. This is not meant as a diss on Mr. McGregor, the dog's face just had a certain quality.

I still love Moulin Rouge despite (or because of) the corniness.

yea i need to see it again

he has puppy dog eyes

and in beginners, he has a jack russell, and they communicate

i died

Do you have a picture of said dog? If so please post itt:

does this dog look like david crosby

He will be in fine company along w/ canine Crosby and Scorsese.

done, i posted a picture of arthur

awww surm I meant Nicole's friends dog who looks like EN. Arthur sure is cute though. :)

EM not EN oops

oh, gee, i messed up

I will see if I can find one.

Yeah I love this dude, even though he has been in some terrible, terrible movies, like... all the ones whose names I can't recall now - but the one where it was all a dream, and the one where he sleeps with Natasha Henstridge and Michelle Williams. meh.

he is very good in the star wars movies at capturing alec guiness's lack of enthusiasm.
it's a particular kind of lack of enthusiasm -- a kind of gentlemanly, rheumatoid disinterest, bordering on annoyance that underlies polite engagement -- and it grows organically over the three movies -- I don't think he gets enough credit for conjuring it up.

a kind of gentlemanly, rheumatoid disinterest,

otm – like George H.W. Bush.

well said philip

very good in velvet goldmine doing iggy performing tv eye

just saw some of moulin rouge again . . . . "one day i'll fly away" is something else

boy, is Beginners a bad movie.

I've avoided it cuz the trailer spooked me

it's trite but i thought it acknowledged it -- when he is showing his work off and nobody is impressed at "the sads"

the dialogue was straddling the borderline but it still won me over somehow.

It's a tribute to how damn likable and sexy McGregor is that he survives the sub-mental Eternal Sunshine-esque meet-cute with the blond chick from Inglorious Basterds and an atrocious American accent that's faggier than Christopher Plummer.

enbb, Long Way Round is fantastic...really made me like him even more.

I saw it cuz I'd rather have subtitled animals than talking celebrity animals.

It was muzak-y. A string of pleasant scenes you could place in the background while you're working.

I said this earlier in Mike Mills thread, but is he allergic to conflict?

unless it's CGI-decorated.

i couldn't believe how much screen time that dog got.

I mean, the entire point of the movie is apparently Ewan's inability to commit and every five minutes you get Plummer chiding him over that, and, y'know, beyond that there's no evidence whatsoever of anything actually being wrong aside from McGregor drawing trite schoolbook cover crap. (That kind of pissed me off too because he's a designer, not an artist, design what the client wants and stop fucking around.)

And then there's like two minutes of moping, cuz despite 80 minutes of prefab meet-cute and romance scenes, turmoil between the couple is spoken, never shown. And then a happy ending somehow? I think? I forget.

yea but i think it was supposed to piss you off . . . . like, the clients hated it

and the ending was not really happy - it was open ended, hence the title. you don't really know if you're ending happily or beginning all over again.

(That kind of pissed me off too because he's a designer, not an artist, design what the client wants and stop fucking around.)

so otm

his hair is exquisite in this, btw?, as a counterpoint to the negativity. & his freud suit, too.

yes his hairrrr

i just want him to hang out with me

really like him, but hate it when he tries to do an american accent. men who stare at goats especially bad

― mizzell, Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:42 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark

yeah this turned me off him for a while there, though he's back in my good graces these days. really surprised me in philip morris

glad to know i can skip Beginners

somebody else up in here liked beginners! even if contrived, it was charming and memorable. it reminded me of a girl i once knew.

Has anyone seen his Glasgow-based new one, 'Perfect Sense', yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWOlvyz_c2M

i think there was a preview somewhere recently, maybe at eiff, i think i maybe read that it was a bit perfunctory? or not so great. i will go for views of glasgow & because my friend is in it at some point in the bground. david mckenzie went in some bad directions recently i think.

Yeah, a couple of folks I know went to see it in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago; they liked it. It was on at the GFT here in Glasgow tonight as a preview as well. I believe it is out in October properly.

I'm interested for the Glasgow connection, because he rides a fixed-gear bike in it and because they used some records from my shop as props to furnish his flat...

Long Way Round is so really totally cool, and he's so cool in it, I just want to smile right along with him and his twinkly eyes.

which is your shop, krakow?
there was a bbc3 gay drama thing a few months ago that was filmed in glasgow, that i forget the name of, which exclusively used merchant city as its backdrop, pretty much. it looks like they're in kelvingrove park, & at stereo, & at the necropolis, from the video

I'm work at Love Music, nee Avalanche, the record shop on Dundas Street. The production company hired a vast number of records from us, apparently to use as backdrop for scenes in his character's flat. I've not seen the film myself yet.

*I work

ah neat. i think i knew it as avalanche. that's pretty cool. i think i've sat through high fidelity part sustained by like, look there's perfect prescription! ,&c.

It has its moments. I'm the one in there with the good music taste if you're ever passing.

Some location scouts came around to my friend's flat on Great George Street a few times thinking about using his place. They didn't go with it though. I remember them being at Stereo, actually.

Lesbian Glasgow drama is Lip Service. They were filming it again when I was in town back in May. xposts

I stood about 6 feet away from him, on the other side of a barrier, while he was being interviewed at the NY Film Festival maybe the year of Young Adam. Just staring, panting.

damn boy, he's stunning isn't he

omg this Salmon Fishing crapola

I first saw the trailer for that when we went to see War Horse, and immediately turned to my wife and said, "Well, glad we don't need to see that!"

he tries to do an Ealing Alec Guinness (as an ass-clenched Scot) for awhile, but is defeated.

Gah for a second I reversed the order of who was posting what and was all "Morbs got married? To a woman?"

That's OK, I was having a hard time for a second figuring out whether Eating Alec Guinness was some lost Paul Bartel movie or what.

u guys and yr Wednesday nights out

Eating Alec Guinness

"...a piquant aftertaste."

yes, one of his boytoys has the title for the tell-all

he's been in some a lot of crap movies of late, but i think the presence of ewan mcgregor earns even the worst film an extra bonus star.

he's really good at being devious with an edge of desperation. he was great in haywire.

also like him in the island.

oh and he is crazy good looking.

Perfect Sense is pretty good imo

Interview with him in AV Club this morning - he has four movies out now (well, "out" "now")

I always thought him in Star Wars was a shame - he was watchable as always, but I thought if there was one actor who might actually be a modern Harrison Ford, it'd be Ewan.

has Michael Fassbender stolen his career or what

This was presumably written before they were cast in Haywire?

(not that it's not a good observation, just funnier now)

(MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE ISLAND IF ANYONE AT ALL ANYWHERE CARES)

I liked the angle that the "real" Ewan was a quiet indie Scotsman who likes to ignore the fact that his existence is made possible by the American-accented action hero Ewan.

Fassbender is much more capable of menace than what I've seen of McGregor, despite their similar levels of hotness.

Perfect Sense is absolutely gorgeous.