Ewan McGregor

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Da ja nur drei möglich sind, hier das 4.
Ewan und seine Motorräder.

[Nelle]

Die Trackliste vom OST habe ich schon gepostet.

Ich habe bei Biene in Auftrag gegeben, dass sie mir "Here's to love" (neben einigen anderen Songs) brennt.

Ich habe gestern um ca. 22 Uhr erst erfahren, dass Ewan sich schon in Cannes gezeigt hat - also hoffe ich, dass sie auf Arte noch nichts davon gezeigt haben.

Vielen Dank für die Bilder!

Zu deinem Avatar sage ich nur:

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Ich weiß das du sie schon mal gepostet hattest, aber ich dachte, da wir gerade beim Thema waren, passt die ganz gut.

Ich hab mir jetzt endlich mal ne CD gebrannt, nur mit Ewan Songs, könnte meine Lieblingsdauer-CD werden.

Ich hab das bei Arte gestern gesehen, da kam noch nichts. Aber soviel über die Filme kam finde ich nicht. Könnte mehr sein.

Die Bilder sind echt gut.
Danke für Avatarkompliment. Das Bild ist echt megageil.

Sag mal die "Young Adam" Bilder hatten wir noch nicht, oder?

[Nelle]

Da ich heute abend nicht da bin, nehme ich die Zusammenfassung auf. Ich hoffe es lohnt sich.

Die Bilder hatten wir noch nicht, aber ich habe sie vor einigen Tagen auf einer Cannes-Seite gesehen.
Dazu gehört noch das hier , aber das hatten wir schon. Glaube ich.

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Also gestern haben sie nichts bei Arte gebracht.
Aber heute bei CinemaxX TV haben sie kurz was über Ewan und Renée gebracht und dann haben sie eben bei der Formel1 Berichterstattung was über Ewan in Cannes gebracht, wegen des Dokufilmes über die Mororad WM.
Jetzt hab ich das beides von Ewan zwischen den Berichten von "Matrix: Reloaded", passt wirklich gut, aber hauptsache ich habs überhaupt.

Das Bild hatten wir schon, aber ist ja nicht schlimm.

Ich hab jetzt endlich das Interview bei Jay Leno gesehen, das war echt der Hammer, zum totlachen, ich hoffe davon gibts mal nen Script. Denn das nacherzählen macht sich recht schlecht. Er hat auch einiges über "Young Adam" erzählt und natürlich über "DWL". ER war mal wieder in schwarz gekleidet, sah sehr geil aus, schwarz ist echt ne schöne Farbe. Aber er hat sich andauernd am wachsenden Bart gekratzt, herrlich, so toll findet er das wahrscheinlich nicht. Haare sagen auch schon ein bisschen Obi-Wan-mäßig aus.

So hab ein Bild gefunden:

[Nelle]

Na toll, ich bin mal wieder neidisch! Ich habe nichts davon gesehen... Jay Leno natürlich erst recht nicht.

Heute haben sie bei Arte wieder nichts gezeigt. Hauptsächlich französische Sachen, was mich noch mehr geärgert hat.

Die Formel1-Berichterstattung habe ich nur kurz gesehen - danach kam ja Exclusiv-Weekend und ich dachte wenigstens die zeigen was. Aber nein, Ewan existiert für die nicht.

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Jetzt wirst du mich wahrscheinlich hassen, aber ich bin ja gleich weg, gestern bei den RTL2 News kam auch was über Ewan, ich war total geschockt. Das war auch über die Motrorad WM und nichts über "Young Adam", aber er sag geil aus. Das mit Arte nervt mich aber richtig, die haben da nur scheiß Filme gehabt, die blöden Franzosen, ich weiß warum ich die nicht leiden kann.
Ich dachte eigentlich auch, dass sie bei Exclusiv-Weekend was bringen, aber nein, bei der Formel1, wo's gar nicht hinpasst.
Falls es kein Script zu Jay Leno geben sollte, probiere ich das dann mal nachzuerzählen, das war nämlich echt zu süß, aber ich sag ja nichts.
Schaff die DSL an.

So dann werde ich mich jetzt mal für ne Woche, also bin Freirag verabschieden.
Und denk an die 2. Seite.

Ein paar Bilder zu Abschied:

[Nelle]

Und ich habe alles verpasst...

Du bist jetzt wahrscheinlich schon weg, trotzdem: Viel Spaß!

Young Adam-Photo Call in Cannes:

[Nelle]

Box Office:

5/16-5/18

Rank Title Weekend Total Gross
1 Matrix Reloaded, The (2003) 93.2m 135.0m
2 Daddy Day Care (2003) 19.2m 51.4m
3 X2 (2003) 17.1m 174.0m
4 Down with Love (2003) 7.6m 7.6m
5 Lizzie McGuire Movie, The (2003) 4.5m 32.1m
6 Anger Management (2003) 3.6m 128.0m
7 Identity (2003) 3.4m 44.8m
8 Holes (2003) 3.0m 55.8m
9 Mighty Wind, A (2003) 1.7m 12.1m
10 Bend It Like Beckham (2002) 1.5m 15.2m

Naja, ich hoffe es wird noch besser...

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Hallo, bin wieder da.

War ja knapp mit der zweiten Seite.

Schöne Bilder, er sah in Cannes mal wieder richtig gut aus.

Also das "Down With Love" nur auf Platz 4 ist, hätte ich nicht gedacht, naja, die Frauen schauen sich doch eher "Matrix" an.

Von IMDB:

Ewan McGregor
By Anna David
There are those that think Ewan McGregor may be too good to be true.

After shooting to stardom as the heroin-addicted Renton in 1996's Trainspotting, McGregor embraced his independent side (in movies such as Brassed Off, A Life Less Ordinary and Velvet Goldmine) before being catapulted into the public consciousness by taking on the Obi-Wan role for Star Wars. By the time he sang his heart out in Moulin Rouge, he could do no wrong. And, in case his acting credits aren't enough, he also formed a production company, Natural Nylon, with old friends and fellow superstars Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Jonny Lee Miller. Then there's the matter of his production designer wife Eve (whom he met when they worked together on a TV show called Kavanagh QC in 1994) and their darling daughters, Clara Mathilde and Esther Rose.

The picture seemed almost too perfect. Then, as these things will, rumors surfaced that he was the man who'd come between Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise's 10-year Hollywood union. As McGregor and Kidman attended Moulin Rouge ceremony after Moulin Rouge ceremony, there were whispers that the two friends looked mighty friendly, indeed. Alas for the sake of the gossipmongers, the rumors turned out to be false. Fact is, Ewan McGregor is just good enough to be true.

As he prepares for the homage to sixties films, Down With Love (also starring Renee Zellweger) to open, he chats about being able to embody his idol Cary Grant, having to persuade producers to let him sing and the swinging bachelor pad of his day.

Your Down With Love character, Catcher Block, is extremely suave and debonair. How were you able to tap into that type?

I think the whole process was about reliving the films I'd watched as a kid almost. I remembered them all - Peyton [Reed, the director] sent me all the films that are kind of referenced and I knew them all, I'd seen them all many times - so it was just about getting back in touch with that. And when I'd read the script, I knew exactly what it was all about. And then I was just given a chance to be all my favorite actors on screen - [especially] Cary Grant.

And you had all the [suave and debonair] tools - the martini glasses -

[Interrupting with a laugh] I always come with my own tool.

What was your process of getting into the character?

The process into it was really hard. I'm finding this more and more as I go along. It's become part of my process to not imagine I'll be able to pull this off. It's happening to me more or less every time I start something I think, "I can't fucking do this one." And I've had to kind of realize that that's part of it. And in a way, that's what makes it so exciting. Because hopefully a few weeks [after thinking that], you're pulling it off.

But in this case, I came off a film I made in Scotland called Young Adam, which was really the polar opposite of this, and they were really back-to-back. I got home to London on a Saturday from that and I started rehearsing this on Monday. The film in Scotland was a very low budget dark erotic introspective film about a loner, a guy who'd given up his moral self, if you'd like. And here I was playing not camp but the opposite. The film in Scotland was totally inward looking and my character hardly said anything at all, and here I was playing a character that demanded you kind of slapped it on from the outside, if you like. The comedy in these sort of sixties movies is much more played than the way we would play in a contemporary romantic comedy, for instance, where you don't play the comedy. That seems to be a rule that I've had since I started acting: don't play the comedy. And here I was on set really really fucking playing the comedy. And for the first week of rehearsals, I really couldn't get into it. Because it's a style that really hasn't been explored since the sixties. I was delighted to see [when I saw the film] that it doesn't look like it's hard work but it was.

Catcher seems like a misogynist. He really seems to just want to use women.

Yea, he uses them to the best of his ability I think. But that was the point of the character. If anything, he's been slightly torn down. And it's much more fun to be that way on a film set than to be that way in real life.
Do you relate to the character? Did you have your days of being a player?

Well, we've all had those days. I was never a playboy because I could never afford the suits and all that stuff when I was up to no good. But I had my day I suppose.

Did you have a bachelor pad?

I did have a swinging bachelor pad once. When I did my first job, a television series called Lipstick on Your Collar (in 1993), I was living in the very far outer reaches of eastern London. It was the first time I'd ever been paid to act. And I rented a small one bedroom flat in Primrose Hill and it was the kind of apartment where all parties would begin and end. And very often me and my friends would meet on a Friday and it would be off and then they would all leave sometime on a Sunday night. It was my version of Catcher Block's bachelor pad. However, it was much more like a kind of realistic New York flat than the one in our movie.

The sets in the movie are spectacular.

They were beautiful. When we were watching it the other day, both sets - my apartment and Renee's apartment - both got rounds of applause. It was kind of like the old days in the theater - when the curtains would go back and you'd applaud the set. I like that.
Do you sing in the movie?

We kept hammering the producers to let us do a song. I mean, I couldn't believe we were having to persuade them to let us do one. I was going, "Look, I did Moulin Rouge and Renee did Chicago, don't you think you should put a song in it?" And they were like, "Well, we'll see." And it's like, "You'll see? What the fuck are you talking about? Let us do a song!" So eventually we ended up persuading them.

Is there a certain character in history that you'd like to play?

I think I'm still fascinated by soldiers and I think one of the reasons I wanted to do Black Hawk Down was to discover what makes a soldier able to do his work and how a man or a woman can keep their head together and operate. I got a flavor of what that might be when we all trained with the rangers. And I'm reading [David] Hackworth's book about Vietnam at the moment, Steel My Soldiers' Hearts.

Why are you so fascinated by it?

I suppose because I can't imagine pulling it off. And my brother's in the forces - he's a fighter pilot. And when I was younger, I used to be dismissive of it. I was a drama major, you know, so I wasn't into the war, the older I get the more fascinated I am by it.

Being in Black Hawk Down must have made watching the war coverage a different experience.

Yes, my wife kept reminding me that I'm not a soldier. (Laughs)

What about the movie you just completed, Big Fish?

It's a wonderful father and son story and I play the father. I play the young Albert Finney and Billy Crudup is the son. Tim Burton directed it and it couldn't really have been directed by anyone else. There's that beautiful Tim Burton fantasticalness about the stuff that I got to do. Jessica Lange and Albert Finney play the older husband and wife and Alison Lohmann - who's a staggering actress - and I play the younger husband and wife. Danny DeVito, Steve Buscemi and Helena Bonham Carter are also in it - it's quite an incredible cast.

Did you watch Tom Jones [to prepare for playing a younger Albert Finney]?

No, I was sort of expecting to watch a lot of Albert Finney movies and shadowing him and none of it happened. Because I leave [whether I do something like that or not] up to the director - it's his call, really. There was one specific mannerism that I copied and that was it. It was set in Alabama and we both did Southern accents.

When you have to do an accent for a movie, do you speak in the accent all the time?

No. I wish I had the guts to do that but I don't. I take my work very seriously but I can't seem to do that. So I work very hard on the accent and I use it when the camera's turning. But that's the way I work. There are actors who stay in character all day long and I admire them but I've never been like that.

Since taking on Star Wars, how has your life changed?

What's been interesting about it is that very little has changed - to my relief, I suppose. Because it was one of the things I wondered about before I decided to do it. I questioned it a lot because it's not my bag really, all that might have gone along with it. I certainly wouldn't ever like to get nailed down to playing one kind of part. I love being in the films. The only big thing that's changed is that children have seen me act and I don't think many of them had seen the films I'd made up until that point. [Laughs] I certainly hope not. And I love it when kids come to talk to me about Star Wars and ask me how my light saber works. I think the impression is that for six or seven years of your life, you're kind of Star Wars bound and if you're lucky, you get to do other jobs. I mean the reality that I spent four months making the first one and then three or four years later spent four months making the second one and I'm just about to start making the third one.

There was talk of bringing Moulin Rouge to Broadway. Any interest?

I'm very interested in doing theater, whether it be musical theater or not, I wouldn't know until I read something. I'm not sure I'd be interested in doing Moulin Rouge - I find the idea of going back, returning to a character, would be...I don't know what I would get out of it, seeing that I've already done it.

[Nelle]

Und? Wie war's?
Ich meine, so ganz ohne "Matrix"...
Ich war noch nicht drin - wahrscheinlich komme ich aber in den nächsten Wochen dazu.

Sonst gibt es irgendwie nichts neues über Ewan...

Auf http://movieweb.com/movie/downwithlove/ gibt es große Bilder aus DWL. Zwar kennen wir die alle, aber die Größe ist wirklich gut.

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Also in den Niederlanden wars schön, bis aufs Wetter. Amsterdam war auch geil und ich habe nicht gekifft. Es war echt super.

Ich hätte "Matrix" fast schon am Dienstag gesehen, aber leider war das Kino doch schon ausgebucht. Ich war aber gestern und der Film ist megemäßig geil.

Die Bilder sind echt schön groß, man kann den Film immer noch nicht runterladen.

[Nelle]

Ja, Amsterdam ist echt schön.
Aber man braucht nur einmal falsch abzubiegen und schon steht man mitten im Rotlichtviertel.
Als ich da war hat es auch fast nur geregnet.

Sag mir Bescheid, wenn es eine Version des Films im Internet gibt, dann bitte ich einen Bekannten mir den zu brennen.

Weitere Bilder aus Cannes (mit klarem Blick auf's Tatoo ):
http://www.bigpicturesusa.com/productio ... /index.htm



YA hat übrigens einen Verleih in den USA gefunden (Warner Bros.). Ich hoffe immer noch, dass er auch nach Deutschland kommt.

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Das Wetter da war aber echt eigenartig, Regen und Sonnenschein hintereinander.
Im Rotlichtviertel sind wir nicht gelandet, aber ein paar von unseren Jungs hatten es gesucht und "leider" nicht gefunden.

Klar sag ich dir bescheid, die könnten sich ruhig mal beeilen.

Das Tatoo ist echt der Hammer, hoffentlich trennt er sich nie von seiner Frau. Aber so an sich, hab ich mich schon dran gewöhnt und finds gar nicht mehr so schlimm.

Also wenn "Young Adam" sogar in den USA einen Verleih gefundet hat, wird er hier auch einen finden, hoffe ich.
Das Bild ist auch nicht schlecht, bin schon gespannt auf den Film, bei Ewan's Beschreibungen.

[Nelle]

Nicht gefunden? Wir liefen gerade durchs Einkaufsviertel und nur eine Straße weiter (aber wirklich nur eine!) standen wir mitten drin.
Man kann's also eigentlich nicht übersehen.

Sobald Namen dabei sind mag ich Tatoos nicht. Das geht fast immer schief.