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Ich sagte ja nicht, dass ich die Bräune besser finde.
....Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis trumpeted Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film festival into full swing, while "Down With Love" stars Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor were absolutely jazzed to share the stage with big names like Bono and De Niro.
Zellweger says, "I had to pinch myself; a little Bono to my left, a little Bobby to my right. It's not a bad day at work."
While McGregor says, "That was unbelievable. I went a bit silly. I shook his hand and went a bit daft, you know? It's like meeting one of your big heroes."
This year the buzz is all about Robert De Niro's beard, which he grew long for his latest role, playing the archbishop of Lima.
And the gorgeous Jeri Ryan gushed about getting "Down With Love" on screen with Ewan. She says, "Here's the role: can you go make out with Ewan McGregor for three days? Alright, twist my arm! It's a tough gig."...
192: MOVIE INTERVIEW: DON'T BET ON ME PLAYING RENTON AGAIN May 8 2003
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McGregor explains why Porno might not push the right buttons
Rick Fulton Exclusive Movie Interview
FOR the first time, 192 can reveal the REAL reason why Ewan McGregor isn't keen on doing a sequel to Trainspotting.
Irvine Welsh's follow-up, Porno, is set 10 years after the first book which was adapted for the 1996 film, but Ewan reckons it is too "similar".
And he claims Porno didn't inspire him in the way that Trainspotting did.
The news will be a blow to director Danny Boyle and scriptwriter John Hodges, who is already writing a script based on Welsh's novel.
Although the Trainspotting cast also included Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner, it was McGregor's portrayal of Renton which stole the film about Scottish junkies.
Finally opening up to his reasons for being sceptical about a reunion, Ewan told 192: "I've read the book, and I really enjoyed finding out what happened to our characters.
"However, I wasn't sure. It didn't move me as much as some of the chapters and I felt, ultimately, that it was a very similar story."
But he gave out a very thin olive branch to Boyle, whom he fell out with after the director cast Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach rather than the 32-year old from Crieff.
Ewan added: "To go back to the character, I'd have to read the script, but I don't know. I would hate to leave people remembering a poor sequel as opposed to remembering a f*****g cracking movie that we made.
"So, it would be a very important decision for me to make."
It's now up to former doctor Hodges to find the same magic which gave him an Oscar nomination for his Trainspotting adaptation. But he will have to do a great job - after all, it's not as though Ewan has to do the film.
Earlier this week, he came ninth in a Channel 4 poll to find the 100 greatest movie stars of all time.
Al Pacino won, but Ewan was the youngest in a Top 10 which included legends such as Sean Connery - one place ahead of Ewan in eighth - as well as Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford and Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Later this month, Ewan will be reprising his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the last-ever instalment of Star Wars - the third of the prequels which will connect the original three to the newer ones.
And next week, his latest film, Down With Love - a romantic comedy starring Renee Zellweger - will be released in the US. It will be up against the might of Keanu Reeves' sci-fi epic The Matrix Reloaded - which also opens next week.
But far from worrying about the box-office battle, Ewan is almost nonplussed, claiming: "I don't really know anything about that side of it. I make them - I don't really know about selling them."
Down With Love is Ewan's first Hollywood romantic comedy and, if successful, will cement him in the minds of Tinseltown bosses as a bona fide leading man.
The musical Moulin Rouge, with Nicole Kidman, began the process of turning him into a top-flight Hollywood star, helped by playing young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, more for profile than any critical acclaim. But Down With Love, which stars one of Hollywood's leading ladies Renee Zellweger, could put him in the Tom Cruise league.
Fans in the UK will have to wait - it isn't out here until October - but once again, we get to hear Ewan's singing voice.
Of course, that is nothing new - as well as Moulin Rouge, he's been a glam- rocker in Velvet Goldmine and his Choose Life rant in Trainspotting went top five when it was made into a dance track.
Ewan, who played French Horn in his school band and also plays guitar and drums, has recorded his own songs for a possible album.
But he's scared to release it, admitting it might end up being too cheesy.
He said: "I think it's a very tricky thing to pull off as an actor.
"I have talked about it and recorded some stuff with Marius De Vries, who recorded all the music for Moulin Rouge. But I do wonder if you should keep it for yourself. I find it difficult to see a way of doing it without it being cheesorama. Like, Ewan McGregor sings - it could be awful.
"I'm kind of idealistic about it, and I'd love to be able to record an album with him and then, take it to someone and say, `Do you want to sell it,' without them putting me on television or asking me to do live stuff. It would be nice to just put it out there."
Of course, the obvious thing would be to release it on a white label or under another name - and that's something Ewan might think of.
The last time Ewan seriously put out a tune for the charts was the duet with Nicole Kidman from Moulin Rouge, Come What May. It scraped into the Top 30, and then she then went on to sing a duet with Robbie Williams - Somethin' Stupid, which went to No.1.
But Ewan seems undeterred by the apparent lack of success of his last single. He said: "I discovered that recording songs is just fantastic. It gives me as much of a buzz as acting because, ultimately, it's the same thing.
"You're telling a story, but you're just using one facet of your person - the voice, I suppose - but it's more immediate as well.
"You get to listen to it immediately and then change bits and improve bits. I loved it."
But for the time being, Ewan is all actor. And a busy one at that. He has spent much of the year in Alabama with his wife Eve Mavrakis and their daughters, Clara, six, and one- year-old Esther, filming Tim Burton's new film Big Fish.
Then he went to Venice for a friend's wedding and in three weeks he's off to Australia for the long haul it takes to make a Star Wars movie.
He's admitted in the past that he finds the `blue screen' work on the film hard going and claims a lot of the acting involves him raising his eyebrows and little else. But after some difficult-to-do movies, it looks like he's ready for some unadulatated fun.
He said: "Bring it on. I'm ready. You probably know more about it than I do. I start in three weeks and I haven't seen a script."
Before flying Down Under, he is likely to go to Cannes to promote another film, Young Adam, which was shot in Scotland.
The film features in the festival's Un Certain Regard section and is one of only a few British offerings in the famous movie festival.
It's his first Scottish film since Trainspotting and also stars Peter Mullan and Tilda Swinton in an adaptation of Beat Generation, Alexander Trocchi's cult novel.
It proves Ewan still has a commitment to Scotland and to low-budget, gritty movies, despite the allure of the big-budget Hollywood projects he's offered.
But playing Joe, a rootless young drifter, caused him problems when he began Down With Love, in which he plays a Rock Hudson-inspired character called Catcher Block.
He explained: "Young Adam is a really very dark, erotic, introspective film about a young man who is basically losing his moral stuff.
"The film charts his moral decline and I finished that film on a Friday, then started rehearsing Down With Love in LA the following Monday - and for the first week, I felt that this was one I wasn't going to be able to pull off.
"I had a day where I didn't really think I was going to be able to do it, which is becoming a whole part of my process.
}It seems that feeling gets stronger every time I start a film. I just have to accept that and go on with it.
"So, I just fought like hell to try and get it - to be suave and cool on film is just not quite as easy as it looks. The dialogue was so clever and witty."
It took Ewan three weeks to sort out his Down With Love character - a playboy journalist who snags a feminist advice columnist played by Renee.
And choosing Down With Love seems to suggest Ewan is on a winning streak after a career of more ups than downs. Career highs have been Shallow Grave, Trainpotting, Little Voice, Brassed Off, Velvet Goldmine, Moulin Rouge and Black Hawk Down.
But there have been turkeys - Blue Juice, Emma, The Serpent's Kiss, A Life Less Ordinary, Nightwatch, Rogue Trader, Eye Of The Beholder and Norah.
Ewan admitted: "My poor agent is rather frustrated sometimes because I tend to want to do quite a lot of it because I'm just a sucker for a good story, and I haven't yet developed the right kind of choosing skills.
"It doesn't matter who's directing it or who's acting in it with you."
So with musicals, rom-coms, sci-fi, war and period dramas under his belt, what does Ewan still want to do?
He smiled: "I'd love to do a cracking thriller, but I find that when I read them, they all tend to feel like an episode of cop drama on the television."
Well, it didn't do Sean Connery any harm - his cop in The Untouchables won him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
) dann kricht man die seite angezeigt,hast des net gewusst? *grübel* moi wirdadmin demnächst. *grübel*
Hätte ja sein können, viele Menschen finde das blasse, helle nämlich nicht so gut. 
Lady-Bant-Eerin hat geschrieben:Ich würde das zu gerne mal von ihm hören, ich verhaspel mich schon beim lesen.
Ich auch - jedesmal.Du bist im Übrigen ein super Admin.
Premieren sind ja eigentlich immer dort. Besonders geil finde ich auch immer "You know what I mean" oder "You know?", das ist sone richtige Volkskrankheit. Wie kann man eigentlich rausfinden wer zur Premiere kommt und ob überhaupt eine stattfindet? Meistens habe ich erst danach davon erfahren und bei Ewan würde mich das wohl ewig ärgern. 
Wie kann man nur so bescheuert sein?Movie star Ewan McGregor hung up on the really dynamic duo of Jamie and Danny (Star 98.7 in Los Angeles).
Danny as in Danny Bonaduce tried to pull a Howard Stern- except only Stern can pull a Stern. McGregor was ostensibly going to be interviewed about his latest film Down With Love which co-stars Renee Zellwegger and parodies the Doris Day-Rock Hudson films. McGregor appeared very upbeat and ready to talk except Bonaduce began asking about "shagging" going on behind the scenes. "I don't care about the movie as long as somebody's getting laid [on the set]" Bonaduce told McGregor who promptly allowed Danny to suck MCI-air. McGregor hung up and efforts by the station to call him back met with voice mail frustration. Jamie and Danny speculated all morning what happened but the fact remained pretty obvious.
Gut, dass Ewan aufgelegt hat! 
