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Ewan McGregor Looks Back on ‘Trainspotting,’ ‘Big Fish’ and 25 Years as Obi-Wan Kenobi: ‘I Hope We Get a Chance to Do Another One’
'Obi-Wan Kenobi' actor Ewan McGregor reflects on 'Trainspotting,' 'Big Fish' and 'Star Wars' ahead of receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The roles played by Ewan McGregor have taken him far: to a galaxy far, far away (three “ Star Wars ” prequels and their small-screen follow-up, “ Obi-Wan Kenobi ”); to post-Bolshevik Revolution Russia (“A Gentleman in Moscow”); even to the bottom of the worst toilet in Scotland (“Trainspotting,” the second of four collaborations with filmmaker Danny Boyle). I always look back and think he set the bar so high.” If that, its follow-up, “Trainspotting,” and their third partnership in as many years, “A Life Less Ordinary,” offered him fulfilling creative challenges, being cast in George Lucas’ hotly anticipated prequel “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” would prove tougher, even as it catapulted him to a new level of commercial success. Though he’s now played Obi-Wan Kenobi for long enough to be at least as synonymous with the character as Guinness (certainly for generations who were raised on the prequel trilogy), McGregor has simultaneously managed to work with a murderer’s row of filmmakers over his career — among them Peter Greenaway, Todd Haynes, Baz Luhrmann, Ridley Scott, Roman Polanski and Ron Howard — whose individual collaborations would merit the kind of canonization for another actor that he’s receiving with this honor.
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