| It's a funny thing, me doing interviews because it doesn't really matter what I think about anything. I just enjoy being in the film in question whether the role is disreputable or dead posh. I love acting. I loved being the caddish Frank Churchill in Emma except the wig itched a lot. I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland. I loved being Jerome lying around with no clothes on while a beautiful woman wrote all over me in Peter Greenaway's Pillow Book. Actually, it was quite difficult being naked most of the time. I regularly spent between two and four hours having calligraphy applied all over my body. I also so enjoyed Brassed Off, playing Andy, a miner who plays the tenor horn in the colliery brass band. In real life, I play the guitar and drums and dream of getting a rock band together." - Ewan "He's got that thing that Tom Hanks has. He's like the guy next door. He's got that ordinariness- that's his nature. He doesn't try to represent himself without spots, and I don't think he's thinking about that. It's instinct. There's something quite naughty about Ewan as well. Very naughty." - Danny Boyle, Buzz Magazine 1997 "I do not follow the Method School of Acting. I did not become a heroin addict for that role. All this 'I became a heroin addict for six months in preparation for this film' is such a load of bollocks. It's not going to help the film." - Ewan, on Trainspotting "I don't care about Oscars. It's such self-aggrandizing nonsense. It's a way to manipulate people into believing that their choices are what's good. It's rubbish. They're looking after themselves. I'll be f****** deliriously happy if I ever get one by the way. I'll go up there and cry and everything. But I don't value them, because I don't have one yet." - Ewan GQ Magazine May 1999 "Ewan's talent will win out over everything. He's got a great future. He will survive Star Wars." - George Lucas, GQ Magazine May 1999 "I've always wanted to go to Hollywood, drive big cars and be in big movies. But I hope I won't do just any film to become a star. I just want to carry on working, acting. I don't want to direct or write. I think making films is brillant. I get excited just going on a film set. Going on location is amazing, hanging about with all these film people doing their thing. If I bump into a star I get all star-struck." - Ewan "For most people you tend to work with an actor once and that's it. You get tired of one another. This is the first example I've had of doing three projects with someone. And I can't imagine him in films other than my own." -Danny Boyle, Buzz Magazine 1997 "People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, 'What? You're married?' Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. 'We're having a baby.' 'WHAT?' As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brillant world." - Ewan, Buzz Magazine March 1997 "I've got a black woolen hat and it's got PERVERT written across the front of it. It's the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn't think. I just put my hat on Clara's head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn't figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby's wearing a hat with the word pervert written on it and these people were like, 'There's Satan! There's Satan out with his kid!' And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there." - Ewan, on an experience during filming A Life Less Ordinary in Denver, Colorado; Buzz Magazine March 1997 "Actually, I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting." - Ewan, on his casting in the Star Wars Prequel; Entertainment Weekly "I took it like a man. He was really tender, very caring. He hugged me afterward. But he never writes. He never calls. Goddamn him! Actually, it was a freezing night when we were doing the scene, and it was far less explicit than Ewan and myself thought it was going to be. The camera was on another roof looking across at us. The only thing Todd did was whisper, 'Cut,' rather than shouting it, so that Ewan and I couldn't hear. We were going at it for ages. Then Ewan sort of turned his head and realized, 'Hey, the camera's not f****** rolling! They'd cut ages ago!" - Christian Bale, on filming their love scene in Velvet Goldmine "When I met with agents in L.A., they would tell me you had to do two movies for yourself and then two for the business. And I thought, 'F*** off. No, you don't. You do every film because you want to do good work. Because you're interested in making good movies and working with good people.' To do a crappy event movie for a lot of money, like Independence Day--I would never taint my soul with that crap." - Ewan, Entertainment Weekly "I was 6 years old when Star Wars came out. I remember standing outside school waiting to be picked up, so excited. And my daughter's going to be 6 when the new Star Wars movies are out. That's f******lovely in a way, you know?" - Ewan, Entertainment Weekly "We didn't really do any drugs because there weren't any to be had. I missed the whole rave scene and the E culture in the late 80's. It's quite sad. They really got the wrong guy for the job: Ewan 'Mr. Nae Drugs' McGregor. Any mystique I had before about herion is completely gone now. I'm not as judgemental about drug addicts as I used to be. I know more about their suffering, their pain and their need for help." - Ewan, on Trainspotting, Paper Magazine |
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