Ewan McGregor

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Warum hast die Seite denn so dringend gesucht?

Ist das auf deinem Ava Jeremy Northam oder irre ich mich da?

Das stimmt allerdings, ich finde es wahnsinnig interessant wie solche Sache gemacht werden. Besonders bei den SpecialEffects, das ist teilweise echt unglaublich, was die heute schon machen können.

Hier ginbts echt schöne neue und alte BF Bilder:
http://www.latinoreview.com/films_2003/ ... gfish.html

[Nelle]

Ich habe letztens "Das Ende einer Affaire" gesehen und der Film hat mich mal wieder daran erinnert, dass Ralph Fiennes einer meiner Lieblingsschauspieler ist.
Allerdings fand ich die Bilder auf der Seite nicht wirklich gut...

Das auf meinem Avatar ist tatsächlich Jeremy Northam. Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass ihn jemand erkennt.

Vielen Dank für den Link.
Mich wundert es, dass in den Zeitschriften (mit Ausnahme der Cinema) noch nichts über DWL steht. Normalerweise kommen im November doch schon die Dezember-Ausgaben raus und in denen müsste eigentlich etwas stehen...

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Wegen Ralph Fiennes Bildern kannst mal hier schauen da haben sie echt gute Bilder: http://www.atpictures.com/

Du weißt doch, das ich ihn auch gut finde. Hab Jeremy Northam aber nicht sofort erkannt, erst beim driten mal hinschauen.

Ich denke mal das kommt in den Januar-Ausgaben, da DWL ja erst Ende Dezember startet und dann würde das zeitlich ganz gut hinkommen. In der Cinema ist ja aich noch keine Kritik drin.

Hab jetzt YA auf dem PC, bekomm ihn aber nicht runter, da er mir immer Fehler anzeigt, wenn ich ihn umwandeln will. Echt blöd! Hab aber schon in den Film reingeschaut, Ewan sieht da echt mal wieder sehr geil aus, viel besser als in DWL. So richtig schön normal.

[Nelle]

Danke, da sind wirklich einige gute dabei, nicht nur bei Ralph Fiennes.

Klar weiß ich, dass du ihn gut findest, aber er ist auf dem Bild wirklich nicht leicht zu erkennen.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk
THE RAZZ: EWAN MCGREGOR Nov 21 2003
With Beverley Lyons And Lee-Ann Fullerton
HOT Hollywood property Ewan McGregor has been spending time and money on a brand new Glasgow abode.
Following the example set by showbiz pal Robert Carlyle who also lives in the fashionable West End, The Razz has heard that Ewan recently bought an old town house just off Great Western Road in Dowanside. Ewan is now giving the place a total refurbishment. He's estimated to have spent £100,000 on ripping out the interior and refilling the shell.

www.contactmusic.com/
EWAN BUILDS SCOTTISH DREAM HOME
Hollywood star EWAN McGREGOR has undertaken an ambitious renovation project, to create his dream home in the Scottish capital Edinburgh.
The actor has followed TRAINSPOTTING co-star ROBERT CARLYLE's lead by opting to make the city his main residence, and is spending $170,000 (GBP100,000) making it perfect.
Sources close to McGregor say he has ripped the entire inside out of the property and is now rebuilding it from scratch.

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Ich schaue eigentlich immer auf dieser Seite, wenn ich Bilder suche.

Er ist auch nicht leicht zu erkennen, aber an den Augen erkennt mal ihn schon ganz klar, vorallem wenn man ihn gut findet.

Ewan hat übrigends nen Preis gewonnen, für den "Besten Schotten".

Top Scot Awards: And the winners are...
SHARLEEN Spiteri was in good company on Friday night as she picked up not only the Top Scot accolade at the glittering awards ceremony at Edinburgh’s Prestonfield, but also the award for excellence in music for her band Texas, presented by fellow Scots singer Ricky Ross.

The Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards began in 1998 with the aim of recognising individuals who are leading the way in Scottish culture. The awards were hosted by Fred MacAulay and Kirsty Wark. A judging panel led by John McGurk, editorial director of Scotsman Publications, John McLellan, editor of Scotland on Sunday, Iain Martin, editor of The Scotsman, Sally Gordon of Glenfiddich, and Sandy Ross, managing director at Scottish Television, drew up a short list of nominees.

The people of Scotland decided the final winners by voting in their thousands via telephone hotlines and the Internet.

Actor Ewan McGregor won the screen award but was unable to attend in person. His family were there to toast their son.

[Nelle]

OMG!
Als ich dieses Bild gesehen habe, dachte ich, dass es bestimmt einige Jahre alt ist - bis ich den Text dazu las : Actors Ewan McGregor and Helena Bonham Carter pose at the World premiere of their film, 'Big Fish,' in New York December 4, 2003. The film, directed by Tim Burton, opens December 10 in selected cities. REUTERS/Dave Allocca

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Ewan sieht im Moment aber wirklich etwas eigenartig aus. Dreht er nicht gerade an "Stay" oder was macht er gerade? Sie ist aber auch nicht gerade gut getroffen.

[Nelle]

Ja, so weit ich weiß dreht er immer noch "Stay" in New York. Allerdings sieht er auf den ersten Setbildern gut aus.

OT: Ich habe am Wochenende endlich "Red Dragon" gesehen. Der Film hat mir wirklich gut gefallen - besonders natürlich Edward Norton und Ralph Fiennes. Ich dachte echt bis zum Schluss, dass Grahams Familie doch noch etwas passiert.

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Allerdings, auf den ersten Setbildern sieht er recht gut aus. Vielleicht wollte er sich auch nur schick machen?

Wahnsinn, du hast den Film gesehen und er gefällt dir. Edward Norton ist aber wirklich grandios wie immmer, btw schönes Ava. Eigentli8ch sind wirklich alls gut, es fällt keiner raus, wirklich ein Film wo alles zusammenpasst, das hat man ja selten.

Es gibt übrigends ziemlich schöne neue Sachen auf der officiellen "BF"-Site. http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/big ... /index.php

Hier, ist ein echt niedliches Interview mit Ewan, auch wenn ich immer noch hoffe das er nicht der nächste James Bond wird. Den letzten Satz des Interviews hätte ich aber wirklich sehr gerne als Audio- oder Videofile, klang bestimmt geil.

Ewan McGregor ready, willing and Scottish enough to be the next James Bond

NEW YORK—No wonder Ewan McGregor's name keeps coming up as one of the possible contenders to be the next James Bond.


Nothing seems to rattle him.

The intrepid Scots actor is running an hour late for an interview. And when he finally shows up, grinning broadly and accompanied by two stressed-out publicists, it's discovered that the hotel room being used for press one-on-ones has inexplicably been turned into a luggage storage area.

The publicists begin to stress even more. A journalist helpfully offers to conduct the interview standing up in the hallway. McGregor has a better idea.

"Let's go downstairs and find a room," he says.

He leads the way through a fire exit, down several flights of stairs to another floor being used by Columbia Pictures for its promotion of Big Fish, the new Tim Burton movie starring McGregor that opens on Wednesday.

A spare interview room is found, but there's another problem. The hotel's plastic card key won't work in the electronic door lock.

The publicists start stressing again. "I'm going to call security!" one says, snapping open her cell phone.

"No, wait!" McGregor says. "I think I can get it!"

He fiddles with the card, patiently moving it this way and that. The door eventually opens.

"There it is!" McGregor grins again.

The room is obtained, but not yet secured. The interview has barely commenced, with McGregor relaxing on a couch, when there's a knock on the door. A room service clerk is delivering a large silver tea tray loaded with goodies. The clerk wants a signature, and McGregor obliges, even though the high-priced talent is not supposed to be fussing over such mundane details.

"Would you like a cup of tea?" McGregor asks his guest.

With this kind of roll-with-it attitude, McGregor would seem to the ideal choice to play Bond, James Bond, once Pierce Brosnan holsters his Walther PPK — which is expected to happen sooner rather than later. McGregor's name often comes up as a possible contender, alongside such obvious competition as Hugh Jackman and Colin Farrell, and McGregor makes no secret he's interested.

He's the right age — 32 — and certainly has the right accent, since fellow Scotsman Sean Connery still tops every poll for the fans' favourite Bond. And since McGregor has already proven himself as one pop icon, playing the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in three Star Wars prequels, why not add Agent 007 to his lifetime to-do list?

"There has been talk of it, but not with the people that matter," McGregor says. "I believe Pierce is either doing his last (Bond film) or he's doing one more.

"It's interesting. It's a fun thing to talk about when it's not really even on the cards. In the same respects, I'm not sure what would happen if it cropped up. You'd have to really think about it. I think you'd have to really think about it in the same way that I did with the Star Wars films. I really thought about it and spoke to people I knew and in the end I just wanted to do it more and more, the closer it got.

"I think it would be the same with Bond. It might take a bigger man to turn it down."

Probably a better dressed man, too. McGregor is still wearing the same ultra-casual clothes he wore hours earlier at a Big Fish press conference.

He's dressed down in blue jeans with no knees, a well-worn red print shirt over a white undershirt and black-rimmed eyeglasses that look more Michael Caine than Sean Connery.

And then there's all the sex. Could he hold up Bond's end in that department?

This may be a rhetorical question for a man who steamed up Cannes this year with his love scenes with Tilda Swinton in the sex drama Young Adam, which is still awaiting a North American release.

"There's not very much sex in them anymore, anyway," McGregor parries. "There is more sex in Young Adam than there was in the last five Bond films."

There's also a lot more nudity, full frontal even, which is why Young Adam has been delayed reaching these shores: American censors are worried. McGregor recently groused about the situation to the British press: "You can blow thousands of people's heads off with a semi-automatic machine gun but you can't show a picture of my willy."

His willy stayed sheathed in Big Fish — unless you count his birth scene — but that's about the only thing that is restrained in the film. McGregor plays the younger version of an adventurer and storyteller (read: liar) named Edward Bloom, who gets into all manners of scrapes. (Albert Finney plays the older version.)

Bloom's travels team him with a one-eyed witch, a friendly giant and a gorgeous pair of conjoined twins. And that's just the first half of the movie. The role is tailor-made for a guy like McGregor, who has landed himself many unusual assignments in his 10-year career.

Since first gaining attention in the mid-1990s in the Danny Boyle films Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, where first he played a conniving journalist and then a charismatic junkie, McGregor has tackled all manner of characters. In recent years, he's played a wild rocker in Velvet Goldmine, a dashing Obi-Wan in two Star Wars prequels (the third and final one is due in 2005), a musical author in Moulin Rouge, a determined U.S. soldier in Black Hawk Down, a Cary Grant clone in Down With Love and now a teller of tall tales in Big Fish. This list barely scratches the surface of his many roles.

It seems as if his career has proceeded almost by accident, due to his willingness to give anything a go.

"Not by accident," he counters, "but on my gut instinct as opposed to by design. I don't make decisions based on any idea of career. I don't think of it in career terms, like this would be a really good film to do now. I just go with my instinct.

"When I have made decisions based on career, I don't think I've been very good. Choosing to do something because I thought I should be seen doing something different from Trainspotting isn't a good enough reason for me."

He has a point. Not all of his films have been successful. The year after Trainspotting came out to rave reviews, McGregor appeared in the period drama The Serpent's Kiss. The film premiered in competition at Cannes in 1997, but it went nowhere after that. He's also had trouble with romantic comedies, such as when he made A Life Less Ordinary with Danny Boyle, also in 1997. More recently, he saw Down With Love do less-than-stellar box office, despite the fact he was teamed with Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger.

He blames the failure of Down With Love on marketing.

"Because it opened with The Matrix Reloaded," he scoffs. "I think the counter-programming argument is valid to a point, but what (the studio marketers) ignore is the fact that The Matrix comes with a tidal wave of publicity which will swamp yours for anything. We can't hope to match the publicity for it. So people don't get to hear that it's on.

"But you can't blame it all on that," he continues, softening his rant. "I have no idea why Down With Love didn't work. Maybe people didn't get it. I don't know."

One thing he does know is that he wanted to work with Tim Burton, which is why he happily took up the Big Fish assignment. It required him to work on getting a southern American accent — no big deal for a lad who grew up watching Yankee westerns on TV — and to spend weeks in Alabama during the filming.

McGregor says he normally bases his decisions on the quality of the role, not on who is making the movie. But in the case of the highly creative Burton, he was happy to make an exception.

"If get a script from Tim Burton, it's going to play some part in your reading of it. You can't help but let it affect the way you see the film in your head as you read it. Because you know Tim Burton's style and therefore it colours it.

"But I'm fascinated by stories, really, and I don't particularly go out of my way to look for something different. I just suppose that the ones that I'm interested in are the ones that I haven't done before."

At the press conference earlier, McGregor spoke of how much Edward Bloom reminded him of his father, a schoolteacher with the gift of gab who would constantly stop to chat with people he met. It used to drive young Ewan and his siblings mad.

"I thought a lot about my dad when I was (making the film)," McGregor said.

"It used to frustrate us in our childhood. It took us hours to get anywhere. He was liked, though, so it wasn't a problem at all."

His dad used to worry about him, wondering if he'd ever get a proper job.

But his parents helped him get into acting school, and "when I started getting work, he was very happy."

McGregor jokes about his success.

"I'm amazed. I'm a terrible actor."

But he's also a firm believer in making things happen on your own, and not being afraid to take risks.

Which is why he has no regrets about playing Obi-Wan Kenobi, even though he's not completely delighted with the first two Star Wars prequels, The Phantom Menace and Attack Of The Clones. (The third episode, still unnamed and wrapped in secrecy, is well underway.)

"No question, I'm delighted to be in them. Just the idea of seeing the next one is quite titillating. I'm quite excited to see how it all ties up. I think it's easy to be critical, but shift your perspective over a little bit to think of them as kids' films and remember how you felt when you were watching (the original Star Wars films) yourself. It's easy to enjoy them."

That being said, he still has some criticisms for Star Wars guru George Lucas and his crew.

"The focus in the three I've made has been the technology and that's a mistake, I think. If what's in the foreground isn't as interesting as what's in the background, you're in trouble. Certainly on set, the energy is spent on the background. So that is maybe something where they've slightly gone askew."

If Lucas wants to get back to McGregor on that, he'll have to hurry. The unstoppable Scotsman is making plans for an around-the-world motorcycle ride that he plans to start next April with his best friend Charlie Boorman, son of filmmaker John Boorman (Deliverance).

Their route will take them to such remote locations as Siberia, and to places that are dangerous enough that they've had to include in their planning training for how to conduct themselves in a kidnapping situation.

Why would McGregor consider doing something so risky?

"There are lots of `what ifs' in life," he replies. "And `what if?' is what stops you from doing stuff."

Okay, but then why Siberia? That's where people are exiled. They don't generally go voluntarily.

"Yeah, I know. I am fascinated to see it. They say crossing Siberia or crossing the Russian Steppes is like crossing the Atlantic because it's the same landscape. Some people think you'd get bored, but I kind of have a goal. We're trying to go around the world and it's just such an obvious route on the map. We don't have the luxury of having a year to do it and this looks like a straight line. Although, you know, once you get half way across Russia, the road system will be shite. We'll be off-road a lot of the way."

Are McGregor and Boorman good motorcycle mechanics?

"Passable, but not good enough. We will be by the time we go. We'll have mechanic's training, medical training and kidnap avoidance training. We'll be trained up so we'll be ready to go."

That's the kind of spirit that could land him the job of James Bond, to get back to that subject.

McGregor grins, and does his best Sean Connery:

"Not this time, Miss Moneypenny."

[Nelle]

Ich habe das Buch "Red Dragon" vor ein paar Monaten zu einem Drittel gelesen und als ich in der Videothek war konnte ich einfach nicht an der DVD vorbeigehen. Ich dachte mir "Jetzt oder nie!"
Btw, danke!

Die BF-Seite brachte meinen Computer zum Absturz, warum auch immer... Ich werd's einfach später noch einmal versuchen.

Das Interview kenne ich... jedenfalls kommt es mir sehr bekannt vor.
Dem ganzen Bond-Kram stehe ich weiterhin skeptisch gegenüber. Ewan soll lieber etwas anderes machen.

Ewan McGregor gets kidnap avoidance training
Story filed: 09:27 Tuesday 9th December 2003

Ewan McGregor is to receive kidnap avoidance training for a new TV series he's making.

McGregor and actor friend Charlie Boorman are teaming up for Long Way Round - a 20,000-mile motorcycle trek across Europe, Russia, China and the US.

The pair will head off in April for three months with the aim of making 10 one-hour shows or 13 half-hour programmes for an autumn 2004 airing.

The two friends will travel through Europe, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and Russia before heading to Alaska. From there they'll travel across the US and finish in New York.

The 32-year-old says he is a bike fanatic but has only "passable" mechanical skills, says the Daily Record.

"We'll have mechanic's training, medical training and kidnap avoidance training. We'll be trained up so we'll be ready to go," said McGregor.

Jude Law bei Jay Leno:

Yesterday, I took 3 of my friends to Leno with me. No, I didn't have the time or energy to wait in line overnight...but the four of us WERE STILL THE LAST OF THE 30 to first go in. (If you watched the show, we were the ones who screamed when Jay mentioned Ewan McGregor to Jude...heehee)....and what a hilarious part when all through the second half of the interview...Jay was talking to Jude about Ewan...like where did they meet and did they ever get into trouble...and especially about Motorcycle riding (which Jude "appologetically said" that he's the one out of all his friends who rides scooters NOT motorcycles!!) He then started talking about Ewan taking his trip around the world...and that "Jay needs to ask Ewan this when he's on the show next"...which he probably will... on Monday

When Jude said he rides scooters Leno said "so you're more of a Mod than a Rocker" with a British accent (he's seen VG I think). Then Leno said "Ewan's probably a Rocker" and Jude said "Ewan's definitely a Rocker". Then Jude told a funny story about Colin McGregor going off to work in his suit and tie just as they were getting in from a night out.

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Du hast also das Ende vom Buch nicht gelesen? Ist auch ganz gut, ich war nämlich echt froh, das sie es nicht genau übernommen haben. Wäre nicht so schön gewesen.

Hat das mit der Big Fish Seite mittlerweile geklappt? Die Bilder sind nämlich echt schön, auch wenn bekannt, aber das ganze Design ist wirklich ansprechend.

So langsam frag ich mich ob Ewan irgendwann mal zu Hause ist, er macht ja andauernd irgendetwas.

Also Jude bei Jay Leno hätte ich echt gerne gesehen, gibts davon Bilder?

[Nelle]

Nein, irgendetwas ist mir dazwischen gekommen. Und da ich das Buch aus der Bücherei hatte, musste ich es zurückgeben.

Das mit der BF-Seite hat gekalppt - auch wenn das Laden (nette Idee, dass die Äste des Baumes mitwachsen ) ewig gedauert hat. Sieht aber wirklich schön aus, passend zum Look des Films.

Übrigens habe ich einen Mini-Artikel (eine Seite) in der neuen Amica über Ewan entdeckt. Es steht nichts weltbewegendes drin, hauptsächlich, dass er sich in seinen Filmen oft auszieht. Deswegen habe ich mir die Zeitschrift auch nicht gekauft. Deswegen und weil sie das ganze Magazin total verändert haben. Ich finde es jetzt zu groß, zu unübersichtlich und auch inhaltlich schlechter.

Crossing a Feline

Ewan McGregor was careful not to rile one costar in the drama Big Fish - a lion. "[After hearing about Roy Horn], I consider myself very fortunate," says McGregor, 32, whose character briefly joins the circus. "They're wild animals. Even if they're bred in captivity, a part of their brain must say, 'Rowrr, f--- off!" The actor even puts his noggin inside the lion's maw. "They built a prosthetic lion head for that. But in the next shot, there's a real lion sitting right behind me," says McGregor. "The trainer told me, 'Don't annoy it in any way.' But [director Tim Burton] wanted it to roar. So I was busy not annoying it, while a foot behind me [the trainer] kept tapping it on the head with stick to make it roar."

Das wäre mir an meinem ersten Tag in London fast passiert : http://pages.infinit.net/ewan/temp/EwanNWmagazine.jpg

Bilder vom Jay Leno-Auftritt habe ich bis jetzt nicht gesehen.

[Nelle]

Die Instyle hat es endlich geschafft: In der Januar 2004-Ausgabe ist ein Interview mit Ewan! 2 Seiten Text, eine Seite Foto. Das Bild ist leider schon älter (aus dieser Reihe, doch er guckt direkt in die Kamera: http://www.bestofewan.com/pixs/BoEM_076.jpg)
Das Interview wurde zu DWL-Promotion-Zeiten gemacht (handelt allerdings nicht vom Film) und enthält nicht wirklich neue Dinge - lohnt sich aber trotzdem.
Ansonsten enthält die Ausgabe Artikel über Kate Hudson (Cover), Orlando Bloom, Sarah Chalke (Eliot aus "Scrubs") u.v.a.

[Lady-Bant-Eerin]

Hatte ich dir das Ende aus dem Buch nicht schon irgendwann mal geschildert? Mir ist so.

Selbst bei dir dauert die BF-Seite eine Weile und das will schon was heißen. Aber optisch wirklich sehr schön.

Die Amica ist aber wirklich ein bisschen sehr groß, obwohl ich das Magazin noch nie so gut fand. wir haben hier in Deutschland eindeutig zu wenig gute Zeitschriften.
Meine Mum bringt mir hoffentlich jetzt die InStyle mit, habs ihr noch schnell hinterher gerufen. Bin ja mal auf die Cinema gespannt, ob noch was anderes außer Herr der Ringe drin ist, z.B. über Ewan oder so.

Typisch Autofahrer! Habt ihr ja beide Glück gehabt.

Also in dem Fall, hab ich mit dem Löwen doch mehr Mitleid, als mit Ewan.

[Nelle]

Wenn ja, dann habe ich es eindeutig vergessen.

Es gibt auf jeden Fall zu wenig gute Magazine in Deutschland. Ich würde mir ja die englischen/amerikanischen kaufen, aber so viel Geld habe ich dann doch nicht...
Ich hoffe, dass die Cinema neben HdR nicht die anderen Filme vergisst. Ich freue mich natürlich wahnsinnig auf den 3. Teil, aber ich finde es immer etwas nervend, wenn 2/3 nur einem Film gewidmet werden.

Also an den Autofahrern lag's nicht, sondern daran, dass ich noch nicht an den Linksverkehr gewöhnt war. Und das obwohl überall in riesiger Schrift "Look right" oder "Look left" auf dem Boden steht...

Mitleid hatte ich mich Ewan auch nicht. (Es ist schrecklich, dass Tiere wie Löwen, Tiger, Elefanten usw. im Zirkus oder sonst wo blöde Kunststücke aufführen müssen. )
Ich fand nur das hier recht witzig: "They're wild animals. Even if they're bred in captivity, a part of their brain must say, 'Rowrr, f--- off!"