Eleonor McKay Ewan interview (published yesterday ) "The movie reflects the life"Drama-star Ewan McGregor on power politician, director-power and his gay role in "I Love You, Phillip Morris"
The actor Ewan McGregor is currently in cinemas everywhere. As early as February, the 39-year-old Scot as Roman Polanski was "experiencing Ghost Writer". There followed a major role in the military-grotesque "Men who stare at goats" and a guest appearance in the sequel to "Nanny McPhee". Tomorrow starts now, the film "I Love You, Phillip Morris" in German cinemas, starring the beloved one of the British con man. André Wesche spoke with Ewan McGregor.Free Press: Is it playing for a prominent actor at risk for a gay role?Ewan McGregor: That is a shame, but it's true. When I play a junkie, no one called as a risk, but it is for an actor still daring to portray a homosexual. I am totally the same, I really like this movie.Free Press: Do you think that cinema reflects the world?McGregor: Absolutely, yes. Even a film that takes us just laugh reflects situations that are familiar from everyday life. We only find funny things to which we can build a relationship. Films like "The Ghost Writer" and "men who stare at goats", however, are politically in different ways.Free Press: How do you perceive as the current political development?McGregor: I do not know much about Gordon Brown. I have not in recent years lived in the UK, so I know myself better with Barack Obama. It makes me very optimistic. But I can the policy section of the newspaper is not easy to read, I do not get out. I will next year forty, I have three children, so I should read the political news. But every time I sit down and want to read an article about a politician, I'm hardly up to the second section.Free Press: Is your policy so it does not matter more?McGregor: I do not care policy is, after all I am I a citizen of this world and as such I feel for whether it is on a good or bad way. But I'm not interested in party politics. It corresponds to the ideal of policy, if a man has a vision of a better society. He believes so firmly that it is taking a political career. But the politicians of today seem to me as people who put their hands in the pockets of taxpayers. They run a flourishing trade with ideals: Do you agree for me, I vote for you. This is disgusting.Free Press: Even directors exert power. How does a Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, who hardly gives instructions?McGregor: That is a misconception about Woody Allen. He is not a director, with which one does a lot of talk, but he staged out. He says that one must not hold slavishly to his text. But these texts Woody Allen has written, they are completely consistent and it wants to change a word of it. Polanski, however, was very special.Free Press: In what way?McGregor: We usually start in his trailer with the samples. He has a very specific idea of how each word should be pronounced. Only when the dialogues were really brought into shape, we went to the samples at the location. For each gesture, he is picky. My play style has changed with him, and I have a feeling that he has shaped my role at least as much as I do
