Middle Age Hollywood

Ewan says he hates newspapers that focus too much on people’s private lives.

“I come from a country where we’ve probably got the worst tabloid press — all these publications based on people’s private life. It’s disgusting,” he fumed.

“It’s nobody’s business. As actors, we put ourselves on the screen and that should be enough, that’s exposing enough, without people routing around your dustbins looking for stuff. They’re making millions off people spying and following you around. It’s disgraceful.

“I quite like people who write their autobiographies and people find them in the attic after they die. Then you discover that they’ve been horrible monsters or had 15 wives in secret, or something else terrible. I prefer they expose themselves after they’ve died.”



“I love nothing more than going to see one of my films for the first time,” he added.

“Without fail, the first thing I think is ‘Is that me?’ You know, I’m sitting there, and then it goes dark and the projection starts and I go, ‘Flipping heck.’ I say to myself, ‘That’s me up there.’ I always dreamed of doing it, and I still can’t quite believe I’m doing it.”

Ewan — who locks lips with costar Jim Carrey in I Love You Philip Morris — recently revealed that he would take it all off and kissing boys — if a role requires it.

“I remember getting a kind of rush out of that first time, a slight feeling of power about it, you know?” he said of nudity.

“I remember when I kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Velvet Goldmine. It was just a rush at the end of the day.

“It was just an electrical moment, because you look around and some of the British electrician guys — who are all mainly closeted homosexuals, I think — were sitting around going ‘F**k, no.’ But I like kissing boys on screen. As a straight guy, it’s quite an interesting proposition. Anything on a film set that takes you by surprise like that, that gets your blood up, is good.

“I’m always interested in playing different people, in different situations. It doesn’t matter to me whether someone is in love with a man or a woman. I find the idea of love and romance interesting. I’m a sucker for it. I like playing someone who’s falling in love because I like the sensation of it.”

Source: showbizspy

Long time UNICEF UK Ambassador and actor Ewan McGregor, has today launched a compelling video appealing to the UK public to help in whatever way they can to help Pakistan’s children whose lives have been devastated by the floods. The video will be shown online and as a TV appeal.

Ewan McGregor has joined the cast of Madonna’s upcoming project W.E. to play Edward VIII.

McGregor, currently starring in Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer, will portray the British Monarch who famously abdicated the throne in 1936 order to marry America divorcee Wallis Simpson.

As previously announced Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga will portray Simpson. Abbie Cornish, most recently seen in Bright Star, is set to play a contemporary character in a parallel time line reminiscent of Julie & Julia.

Shakespeare In Love producer David Parfitt is producing with former Miramax executive Colin Vaines. Madonna will direct and is writing the screenplay with her Truth Or Dare director Alek Keshishian.

CAA holds domestic rights and IM Global is handling international sales.

screendaily.com

Highlights:

- Nervousness performing Iago in Othello
- Thinks kilt photo was a mistake
- Tries to play the bagpipes (inflate the bag before you start)
- Embarrassing French horn clip from when he was "wee"
- The kiss with Jim Carrey pic
- Ellen shows him his pics in Out magazine
- Re-enactment of pottery scene in Ghost
- Ellen tries scaring him

Being honored overseas, Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor were made knights in the prestigious National Order of Arts and Letters at the Ministry of Culture in Paris, France on Monday (February 1).

Feeling comfortable with their masculinity, the duo went so far as to give one another a big kiss on the lips at the day’s ceremony.

During the knighthood session, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand proudly declared, “I love you Jim Carrey! I love you Ewan McGregor!”

As for their trip to France, Jim and Ewan are busily promoting their upcoming gay romance, “I Love You Phillip Morris.”





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