Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are feeling the love from their fans.
16.06.2022 - 16:41 / etcanada.com
“Star Wars” fans really, really love Obi-Wan and Anakin’s relationship.
Ewan McGregor is on the new cover of British GQ, and in the issue, the “Ob-Wan Kenobi” star opens up up returning to the “Star Wars” franchise and some of the intense fan art he receives.
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“There’s a lot of homoerotic Obi-Wan/ Hayden [Christensen] fan art that gets sent to me now and again… It’s always a bit of an eye-opener,” he says. “You open the envelope, you think you’re going to have to sign something, and you’re like, ‘F**king hell!’”
The actor also talks about how the prospect of coming back to “Star Wars” has hung over his career for over a decade now.
“Irvine Welsh wrote a sequel to ‘Trainspotting’, which was called Porno. And everyone asked me if I was going to do that, and would immediately follow up, ‘And what about Obi-Wan Kenobi, would you play him again?’” he recalls. “I did a bit of social media then — I don’t any more — but I would see it constantly, this question, are you going to do it again? Are you going to do it again?”
McGregor does have some experience on the other side of fandom, though, having been a massive fan of the band Oasis in the ’90s.
“If you spoke to anybody who came around my house in the ‘90s, it would always end up with There and Then, the video where they walk out and Noel’s got the Union Jack guitar,” he says. “That went on after dinner and would bore everyone to death. I was in my twenties, but I was like a 14-year- old fan. It was kind of embarrassing.”
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As for his own relationship with fame,
Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are feeling the love from their fans.
Ewan McGregor's divorce from Eve Mavrakis, after 22 years of marriage, hit headlines back in 2018. Although Hollywood breakups are often front-page-worthy, it was their daughter's reaction to her parents' divorce that really caused a stir. Ewan McGregor married Mary Elizabeth Winstead in an intimate, outdoor ceremony, in April 2022.
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Zack Sharf [Editor’s note: The following post contains minor spoilers from the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” finale]“Obi-Wan Kenobi” has completed its six-episode run on Disney+, which begs the question: will the “Star Wars” series return for Season 2? “Obi-Wan” was developed and billed as a limited series, but so was “Big Little Lies” and “The White Lotus.” The series came to a conclusive end with young Leia being safely returned home, Reva overcoming the Dark Side and Obi-Wan back on Tatooine looking after Luke. There were no major cliffhangers, although Darth Vader still looms large.
Ewan McGregor has revealed the “rude” criticism he once received about his acting career from Terry Gilliam.In 2010, the Obi-Wan Kenobi star was approached by the director to star in his film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which ultimately never reached production.Now, over a decade later, McGregor has told GQ how Gilliam insulted his acting career right to his face.Although he found the director’s comments to be rude, McGregor admitted that it’s rare to be challenged and that his words have stuck with him ever since.Quoting Gilliam, he said: “‘What the fuck have you been doing all this time? You’ve been underplaying everything. What happened to the guy in Trainspotting? What happened to that guy?!’ It was quite rude.
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didn’t wait long to reunite the titular Jedi Master (Ewan McGregor) and Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen). In “Chapter III” of the limited series, the two come face to face as the Sith Lord tracks his former mentor down on the planet Mapuzo, where Ben and a young Princess Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair) ended up after fleeing Daiyu. Ahead of the episode’s debut on Disney+, McGregor teased that the moment “will be a surprise” -- and indeed it was.
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