Danke!
Livejournal ist echt immer wider praktisch!
Da Ewan ja eigentlich kein "richtiger" Londoner ist, ist es vielleicht nicht ganz so komisch.
Our regular look at some of the faces which have made the news this week. Above are Ewan McGregor (main picture), with Li'l Kim, Alex Higgins, Caron Keating and Bob Kiley.
EWAN MCGREGOR
Having played everyone from Obi-Wan Kenobi to rogue trader Nick Leeson, Ewan McGregor is about to take on a whole new role during a three-month motorcycle journey around the globe.
Ewan McGregor has a long track-record of confounding expectations. No stranger to Hollywood blockbusters such as Star Wars and Moulin Rouge, he still tips his hat to the low-budget independent cinema which made his name.
Witness his recent appearance in the decidedly bleak art house movie, Young Adam, a seemingly endless litany of nihilistic sex and emotional cynicism.
And what could be more confusing to a film industry obsessed by the Next Big Thing than the sight of one of its most recognisable faces taking time off to find adventure on the open road during a 20,000 mile worldwide odyssey?
While cynics mutter darkly about a mid-life crisis, 33-year-old McGregor insists that the trip, which he will make with his best friend, the actor Charley Boorman, is merely the fulfilment of a long-standing dream.
Ewan and Charlie about to set off
But surely, somewhere on the journey, which takes in places a diverse as Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Alaska and New York, the star will reflect on an acting career which has taken him from Crieff, on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, to superstardom.
The son of two schoolteachers - and nephew of Denis Lawson, himself no mean actor - McGregor was plucked from drama school obscurity to feature in Channel Four's 1993 production of Dennis Potter's Lipstick on Your Collar.
But it was Shallow Grave, a quirky and sable-dark comedy, which provided a breakthrough.
His bravura performances in this film, The Pillow Book and, most of all, Trainspotting, established the young Scot as a leading member of the so-called Brit Pack, together with his close friends, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Johnny Lee Miller and Sean Pertwee.
Family man
Although not at the very peak of his profession, McGregor is certainly in the upper echelons of the second rank - not quite Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise, but no Chuck Norris either.
Beyond the glitz and glamour which often conspire to obscure true talent, his acting ability is second to none.
Nor is his lifestyle that of a Hollywood hell raiser.
While on the booze earlier in his career, he was renowned for uttering outrageous pronouncements on his fellow actors - "Minnie Driver? She's gone mad, mad. She goes to the opening of an envelope" - McGregor now eschews drinking and lives quietly with his wife, Eve Mavrakis, and their two children.
With his Moulin Rouge co-star Nicole Kidman
And, paradoxically for an actor who is famed for his portrayal of junkies, he has been outspoken in his condemnation of drug abuse.
But the loving family man can still shock. Not since the glory days of Helen Mirren has a British actor been so seemingly unaffected by getting their kit off in front of the cameras.
McGregor is sanguine about the subject: "I've been naked in almost everything I've been in, really. I have it written into my contract," he quips.
With six films, including Star Wars: Episode III, currently on the stocks, Ewan McGregor is in the perfect position to put his career aside for a wee while and, in the immortal words of one of his most famous characters, Trainspotting's Mark Renton, "choose life."