McGregor winces at his youthful brashness - “I don’t even want to think about it, never mind read it,” he says when reminded of the interview - while acknowledging that his rocket ride to stardom wasn’t always the smoothest one. Star Wars is a completely different ball game.”
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Case in point: A Vanity Fair profile at the time (he’s on the cover holding a rooster, his legs splayed in a kilt), features McGregor defending his choice to move away from indies and make a crowd-pleasing popcorn movie like Phantom Menace by saying, “A film like Independence Day, that’s what I hate - those are the people who don’t deserve to be making movies. “I was just always so arrogantly self-assured - from the beginning, really,” he admits.
In those early days of fame, McGregor had a veneer of confidence that frequently tipped over into cockiness. That’s not fair on either actor to do that.”
The temptation in my experience is just for the director to go, ‘Just do whatever.’ It’s embarrassing. “This was the first thing I’ve ever done where we had an intimacy coordinator,” says the actor, who has simulated the act with everyone from Michelle Williams (in 2008’s Deception) to Jim Carrey (in 2009’s I Love You Phillip Morris). And like Goldmine, Halston is set in the 1970s and depicts a hedonistic world filled with dance floors (disco, not Bowie-esque rock ‘n’ roll), drugs (cocaine, not LSD) and gay sex (this time with Halston’s lover, played by Venezuelan actor Gian Franco Rodriguez).Ī quarter-century later, McGregor is still game for all of it - perhaps even more so now that the industry has evolved. Goldmine was produced by Christine Vachon, the indie pioneer behind Killer Films, who also produced Halston. “I was getting craft services with Christian when I got the call.”
“I found out on the set of Velvet Goldmine that I got the part ,” McGregor remembers. McGregor, then 27, starred in Velvet Goldmine, Todd Haynes’ glam-rock musical, in which he played an Iggy Pop-inspired rocker (Jonathan Rhys Meyers played the David Bowie stand-in) who has a love scene with Christian Bale’s music journalist. There is a neat symmetry to this particular moment in McGregor’s journey, as he teeters between a portrait-of-an-artist drama like Halston and blockbuster sci-fi like Obi-Wan Kenobi. I’ve been involved in some big, silly stuff but also lots of important stuff and some little, silly stuff and big, important stuff. “I would say I managed to have the career I started out wanting in the first place. It feels like as good a moment as any to stop and take in the majestic view, as he does on those epic motorbike treks he chronicles on his travelogue adventure shows, among them Long Way Round and Long Way Up. “It’s about a man, a creative person, who believes absolutely in what they are and who they are,” McGregor says of the designer - but he could just as easily be talking about himself. The story of a Studio 54 regular and Liza Minnelli confidant who streamlined American style but ultimately sold his name away (to JCPenney, no less) before dying of AIDS in 1990, Halston is yet another surprising turn for the actor in a career filled with them.
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The actor plays the lead in Halston, a five-part Netflix series about the 1970s fashion star that’s set for a May 14 global premiere. “Maybe more so than the first ones, because I’m older - I just turned 50 - and I’m just in a much better place.”īefore returning to Tatooine, however, McGregor will take on a very different kind of master on a competing streaming giant. “I’m really excited about it,” he says with glee. Obi-Wan Kenobi is thus perfectly primed to push McGregor’s long and varied career into midlife hyperdrive. That series, which cost about $100 million to produce, was a big lure for the streaming service’s 100 million subscribers, and its season two finale, featuring a de-aged Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, was the first non-Netflix series to top Nielsen’s streaming charts. The enthusiastic reception for The Mandalorian, however, among the first of 10 Star Wars spinoffs coming to Disney+, proved there are still compelling new stories to tell in that universe and that audiences are very eager to see them.
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