@Bant
Klar, wenn es klappen sollte, dann sage ich dir Bescheid.
Ich denke auch, dass Will Smith überhaupt nicht gepasst hätte... Dann wäre irgendetwas zwischen "MIB" und "I. Day" rausgekommen.
Aber da du ihn ja eh nich leiden kannst, war es klar, dass du in jedem Fall so denkst.
FAMILY LIFE TAMES EWAN McGREGOR
From John Hiscock in New York
HE is a man who has had honours, wealth, fame and some very glamorous women thrown at him.
Yet actor Ewan McGregor wants to make it clear where his heart lies.
"I had my bachelor years like everyone else but I have never been a serial shagnasty," he says with a grin. "I never went out with three or four women at the same time.
"When you're a young man, you want to have a lot of sex and when you're an older man you want to be in love. I am very much in love. The things that make me happy are my family and my wife, and my work."
Two years ago, with his wife of eight years Eve Mavrakis pregnant with their second child, there were rumours that the handsome Scot was becoming very close with co-star Nicole Kidman on the set of Moulin Rouge.
But 32-year-old Ewan says his wife is the true love of his life and nothing could tempt him away.
The actor and the French production designer met while they were working on an episode of the TV series Kavanagh QC and now have two daughters, Clara, seven, and 18-month-old Esther.
"I realise the family is what matters," he says. "I am not interested in all the other stuff because I don't think it leads you to contentment.
"Fame and celebrity is a shallow and empty thing because you'll never wake up being famous enough - you'll never wake up feeling satisfied and thinking 'I've done it, I'm really famous' because you'll never be famous enough.
"You'll never be the best.
"I get my satisfaction from getting up in the morning, looking forward to going to work and coming home to my family, happy that I've done my best work during the day and seeing my kids and being with my wife. That makes me truly happy.
"I've never had my happiest moments wearing fantastic clothes at someone else's premiere or a showbiz party.
"I've had my happiest moments watching my children playing together."
Ewan rarely gives interviews but when he does he is friendly, modest and willing to frankly divulge his innermost thoughts on family, fame and celebrity.
Dressed in a dark shirt and suit, sipping water and relaxing at the posh Regency Hotel on New York's Park Avenue, he would have been equally at ease in Clancy's bar down the street.
STRANGELY, Ewan, who has wowed such glamorous co-stars as Cameron Diaz and Kidman, claims that in real life he was never that successful with women.
In his latest film, Down With Love, he plays suave bachelor Catcher Block, alongside Renee Zellweger. Block is a man who uses any trick he can to seduce the woman he wants.
"I was never like him," says Ewan. Then, pausing a moment, he admits: "But I'm an actor so I suppose I was quite good at toying with ladies' emotions to get them into my bed."
For example? "Oh, I can't remember any specific instances," he laughs. "Certainly not ones I'm going to share with you..."
Turning serious, he adds: "But you realise that kind of stuff doesn't lead you anywhere because you get found out and it makes people unhappy.
"It doesn't work, so you reach the point where you realise that honesty is the only attractive thing at the end of the day."
He and Eve have worked hard to achieve a balance in their relationship and take their responsibilities as parents seriously, in a bid to ensure their children are brought up to be well-behaved.
"We don't have an old-fashioned relationship where I come home and my dinner is on the table," he says. "But at the same time we don't have an ultra-modern one, where we're ultra-liberal and let our kids do what they want.
"No, there is discipline. I got a really good upbringing from my parents and I try to treat my daughters in a similar way to how I was treated.
"There are people we know who have no rules for their kids and allow them to do anything because they think they should be free.
"But that really annoys me. When you get covered in food because some five-year-old is throwing it in your face, it's your right to tell them to stop."
Eve is currently taking time off from designing to be a full-time mother. But she has also adapted a French screenplay into English for a film thriller called For The Love Of Art, although Ewan doubts it will ever be produced.
"My wife said to me, 'Do you know who I'd really like to play the detective?'" he recalls. "I said, 'Who, darling?' knowing it would be me. And she said 'Johnny Depp!'" Laughing, he adds. "I said, 'Thank you very much. That's nice'.
"But there's some dark stuff going on - probably too dark for anyone who makes films - so maybe we should do it as a home movie with our friends."
His last attempt at making movies with his friends was not a great success.
Natural Nylon, formed with Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Sean Pertwee and Jonny Lee Miller, to make quality, low-budget films, folded soon after he left, amid rumours of behind-the-scenes rows over finances and the films being produced.
"There was no animosity," Ewan stresses. "None at all.
"I left because I didn't have any time to commit to it any more. I was always away working, so I was merely a name on a bit of paper. I wasn't involved in any of the decisions or projects and hadn't been for a year.
"I haven't been in Britain for more than six months so I haven't been in touch with any of the guys there."
THE Trainspotting star's next project - in just a couple of weeks - will be donning the robes of Obi-Wan Kenobi once more for the final Star Wars film.
Ewan has never been very enthusiastic about the series and knows nothing about the next one, even though he is only days away from going back on to the set.
"I still haven't read the script because they haven't sent me one," he says. "They claim not to have written it yet, so that doesn't bode well. I'm afraid that I can't be excited about it because I don't know what it's about or anything. I'm not a Star Wars buff.
"There are some fans who could tell us now what the story will be because they've worked it out.
"But all I can imagine is there will be a big fight at the end between me and Hayden Christensen. And that's good because I like all the fighting - it gives me something to do."
Ewan's PR tour for Down With Love will take him back to Hollywood, a place he used to detest but has now come to terms with.
"I've realised that the things that frustrated me about Hollywood are the same everywhere else," he said. "There's the same A-lists and B-lists in London and the same stuff goes on. But you can be a party to it or not."
For Ewan, though, it is clear that his heart is not in the Hollywood Hills or at swanky London clubs, but very much at home.
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Mirror
"a serial shagnasty"?
