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Blockbuster action films require an “endurance” because of their “slow” production process, according to Ewan McGregor, speaking at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival today (KVIFF, July 2).
McGregor is attending the festival to accept the honorary President’s Award, and present screenings of Emma Westenberg’s You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder, in which he stars alongside his daughter, the film’s co-writer and producer Clara McGregor.
Asked about moving between small independent features and big studio projects, McGregor said, “If you’re working on an action sequence, it’s [made in] tiny moments. When you have a camera following your every move for three minutes [on a smaller film] it’s easy to lose yourself. I’m still always trying to find this feeling in my work, I want it to feel real and truthful.”
Having started his career acting in independent hits for director Danny Boyle including
Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, McGregor took on the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in three Star Wars films from 1999 to 2005. Last year he returned to the role for six-episode Disney+ miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi.Moustache
McGregor is currently shooting
A Gentleman In Moscow, a series adaptation of Amor Towles’ 2016 novel, in which he plays Count Rostov, a fictional nobleman banished to an attic hotel room after the Russian Revolution. The Paramount+ Series has been filming in Manchester since February began. “It has been a long journey, we have another month left,” said the actor. McGregor, who is currently sporting a thick mustache for the role, said that it has already been trimmed from the original version. “This is the older, smaller moustache,” explained the actor. “At the beginning
has got a big, monster, curly one – you’re seeing the better side of it.”[Rostov]You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder
, a SXSW world premiere in March this year, tells the story of a father taking his estranged daughter on a road trip in an effort to get her out of trouble.It is a debut feature for Dutch director Westenberg, who revealed she is already hopeful to go into production soon on her next film – an adaptation of a book about Julie D’Aubigny, a real-life opera singer in 17
th-century France who was bisexual. Westenberg revealed that Dutch production company Cineart is on board the project. “My dad and i used to be huge fans of Leona. She joked that she had grown out of it, but he hadn’t. Clara and Ewan agreed that they would work together again after their first major collaboration with Clara Bulder and Vera Bulder’s US company Deux Dames Entertainment. “I’m just anticipating them writing me lots of roles – it’s a very good way to keep her old dad in work,” said McGregor.“More to come; we don’t know what that looks like yet, but we’ll come up with something,” added Clara.
You Sing Loud… had its international premiere on Saturday, July 1 in Karlovy Vary. Screenings today include the international premiere of Behrooz Karamizade’s
Empty Nets
; and the world premiere of Tomas Klein’s Czech debut
A Sensitive Person, both in the main Crystal Globe competition.Russell Crowe directing music documentary Last Breath; confirms Hermann Goering role in Nuremberg
, talks Gladiator 2
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