GOOD MORNING AMERICA, ABCWed 12/20 Ewan McGregorTHE VIEW, ABC Th 12/21: Ewan McGregor, the Children’s Christmas ChoirLATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN, NBCTh 12/21: Ewan McGregor, predatory animal expert Manny PuigThanks to Jen for the heads-up!
by Josh Horowitz”Miss Potter” is not Ewan McGregor’s film, and that’s just fine with him. Check out the poster, and all you’ll see is Ren?e Zellweger’s smiling face, but it is McGregor, the sometime Jedi/crooner, who nearly steals the show as her shy and awkward love interest.The movie, which opens in limited release December 29 (just in time for Oscar consideration), fits into the “Finding Neverland” mold. Zellweger plays famed author Beatrix Potter, the woman who brought “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” to life. McGregor took some time to talk to MTV about his latest flick, whether he worries about schmaltz and his plans to get naked again.MTV: That’s some facial hair you sport in this. Was the mustache real or not?Ewan McGregor: Real. [Director Chris Noonan] sent me a photograph of the real Norman Warne, and he had the most extraordinarily long mustache you’ve ever seen. Years and years must have gone into this mustache. I had time, so I grew mine for two or three months.Source: mtv.com/moviesThanks to Kimmy for the link!
Ewan’s on the cover of several magazines this month :tongue: :tongue:Nylon Guys – Winter 2007 (Thanks to Kim for the scans!) Men’s Journal – January 2007 (Thanks to Jen for the scans!) Nox – Summer 2006 (Thanks to Ananula for the scans!) Ewan’s also on the December issue of Professional Photographer (UK) magazine:
Whether he’s playing a drug addict, a hopeless romantic, or even a Jedi Knight, everyone loves Ewan McGregor. Now the Scot is back starring as Beatrix Potter’s love interest, Norman Warne, in Miss Potter.You have worked with Renee Zellwegger in the past. How was it being reunited with her again?Me and Renee had such a fantastic time working on the film ‘Down with Love.’ It was a very specific kind of 1960s sex film comedy and I think I can speak for both of us, we love the film.Although making it was very hard work. Sometimes if the timing wasn’t exactly right on the dialogue then the scenes would fall flat on their face.We would look at each other and think: ‘God, I just wish we could be doing something straight forward.’So was this more straight forward?Yeah, It’s such a straight forward but beautiful story. To be sent this script from Renee was hugely flattering and absolutely what we were talking about.It was wonderful to work with Renee, she’s a beautiful and brilliant actress.She has a beautiful sense of play when we work together, which is not always the case with other people I meet.Source: www.itv.comThanks to Roberta for sending the link! 🙂
The National Library for the Blind in the UK has organised a special celebrity Christmas eBay auction. They wrote to a number of celebrities and asked them to donate an item for our auction. The first celebrity to respond was Ewan McGregor, who sent a signed Obi-Wan Kenobi action figure from Star Wars episode 2 and a signed photograph of himself. The NLB is currently trying to raise £25,000 for their Christmas fundraising appeal, which may seem a lot, but when you consider that it costs £1,265 to produce just one Braille book, you’ll understand that it’s a small total.Link to check the auction: www.ebay.co.uk (auction ends on December 18!)National Library for the Blind
