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- Ewan McGregor , born 1971 in Perth, Scotland, ended up with Danny Boyle’s “Shallow Grave” a moderate success before both 1996 “Trainspotting” international breakthrough experienced. McGregor has since starred in such blockbusters as the “Star Wars” episodes I to III and arthouse hits such as “Beginners”. 2017 he will be seen in the third season of “Fargo”. His new film “Our Kind of Traitor” comes on Thursday in the German cinemas.
SPIEGEL: Mr McGregor, in the film version of John le Carré’s “Our Kind of Traitor” They play a professor who become the target of the Russian mafia, as British intelligence MI6 recruited him for an operation. How familiar were you with the espionage materials from le Carré, almost mark the own genre
McGregor: I think Le Carré is since I for masterful thriller. But I was impressed, among many books, especially the early films. Richard Burton in “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” or Alec Guinness as George Smiley were idols of my youth, because the films each year ran at us on television. The name le Carré is a gold standard like James Bond, and I am glad that adaptations of his works again have economic since “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. have you met him
McGregor: Unfortunately not. He is very keen to ensure that the quality of his novels remains at adaptations and blesses each script version personal basis. But out on the set, he must be at his age probably not do
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. your figure of Perry plunges into danger to help a money launderer in overflowing. What attracted you to the material
McGregor: Perry could also come from a Hitchcock movie, because he is an Everyman unrelated to espionage, the representative of the public in a Thriller plot device. I liked the unusual structure of the story in which many pages move like chess pieces. Where Perry has personal motives. When we meet him, he is experiencing a serious crisis with his wife, who earns as a lawyer much more. I think he feels threatened in his manhood – and responded to the insane proposal to help a Russian gangster because he impressed his raw masculinity
literary adaptation “Our Kind of Traitor”. Literature Lecturer What he brings himself and his wife in danger
McGregor: astray
SPIEGEL ONLINE. of course, he is an irresponsible amateur, we initially do not understand. But he finds his role in this game and can be a pair grow eggs that makes him perhaps again for his wife attractive. I like that especially when le Carré: That he is very close is the human relationships that threaten to be pulverized by the policy and the secret services
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. “traitor like we “is also a critique of the City of London and an increasingly less controlled, the global financial system. Share this view
McGregor: Absolutely, and it depresses me endlessly when just politicians break the rules that are made for all of us. Especially since it is controlling is sensible rules, because each of us wants the streets are swept and the kids can go to the public swimming pool. Damian Lewis, who plays MI6 man, says in the film once that brings you little dirty money in prison, while you’re protected as super-rich with dirty billion. Unfortunately, very close to reality
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Le Carré’s world is overall very male. Has introduced a specifically female view your director Susanna White
McGregor: In my experience directing has nothing whatsoever to do with gender. Each brings a specific point of view, whether man or woman, whether novice or star director. I meet because no distinctions, but let me alone guided by the quality of the script
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. You yourself have recently made her directorial debut “American Pastoral” turned off, a Philip- Roth adaptation. How did this experience
McGregor: The plan was not. But I had already spent several years with the fabric and see come and go several directors, as I grabbed the fear that the damned movie is never done if I did not turn it. stage self I always wanted, without be trusted me such a complex history as of Roth. But at some point I knew my character and the material so well that it seemed almost providential. I hope I have not messed up
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. As an actor you change for twenty years seamlessly between Hollywood and European cinema. How do you manage to keep so many freedoms
McGregor: Maybe it’s my Scottish stubbornness. I refuse to accept roles for the money or to be interested in business for. Of course I’ll noisy when a Polanski or Baz Luhrmann announces – everyone wants to rotate with the masters. But in the end it is my gut feeling when reading the book, which is the decisive factor, no matter how large a production. I have turned obscure flops such as “Velvet Goldmine”, which are to me as an experience no less important than my entire “Star Wars” trilogy
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. have started you directed by Danny Boyle, with which you were shooting three films in the nineties before they quarreled for years. Why
McGregor: The truth is that I was young and stupid. We wanted time “The Beach” rotate together before Leonardo DiCaprio got the part, and I made the mistake of Danny a professional decision personally to blame. Meanwhile, it’s water under the bridge. But I regret a little the movies that we could not do together, because as long silence between us there was because Danny is undoubtedly one of the best
SPIEGEL ONLINE:. Currently available for Boyle in “Trainspotting 2″ in front of the camera. What to expect the fans of the first film
McGregor: I must reveal any details, but John Hodge, who also wrote the screenplay for “Trainspotting” Irvine Welsh’s has continued “Porn” so fantastic adapted as the first film. The whole gang is back again, and each of us knows how important it is not to damage the prestige by an ordinary sequel. “Trainspotting” was the movie of a generation that cinema version of Britpop, I even owe him my career. If we visit these characters again, then certainly a piece of nostalgia is. But above all, it comes to show how Renton and his friends with the world to cope, in which we live twenty years later.
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