Ewan McGregor: Just a Scotsman!

You were probably lucky enough not to watch “Lipstick On Your Collar”, Dennis Potter’s TV miniseries. But perhaps it’s too bad you haven’t seen it. For you could have watched the young Ewan McGregor in one of his first rolls, long before he became famous. If you’re a Midwest couch potato you have probably seen “Shallow Grave” where Ewan McGregor gave a first proof of his talent. If you’re a Central Park West Jewish Intellectual Rudgers University gal, you have without any doubt watched “Trainspotting” , the inevitable Danny Boyle picture of 1996. Danny Boyle turned Irvine Welch’s novel into a fast and thrilling movie about a heroine gang in Edinburgh. Ewan McGregor was to be admired in the lead role as a junkie. If you have seen that movie, you will probably have swapped your heroine for green tea afterwards.

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Ewan McGregor was successful in mainstream, art house and indie films. How did he manage to do that?

Ewan McGregor is extremely flexible an actor. He meticulously studies every role he is to play and kind of transforms himself into a different being. Nevertheless, he is always Ewan McGregor. Only a Scotsman could do that! One of the most interesting films Ewan McGregor starred in was “A Life Less Ordinary”, Robert Lewis’s 1997 satirical comedy. In this movie, Ewan McGregor was to bee seen as a cleaning man in L. A. who kidnapped the boss’s daughter (Cameron Diaz).

The acting style of Ewan McGregor is clear, elegant and full of sense of humour.

The 1971 born Scotsman is a brilliant actor who never seems to be overextended by his part how difficult it might be. In “Angels & Demons” you can even admire Ewan McGregor as “camerlengo” in the habit of a Roman-Catholic priest. By the way: This is quite a funny film, but it’s sense of humour is of the unintentional kind.