I Love You Phillip Morris
The Ghost Writer
The Last Word
The release of I Love You Philip Morris is just around the corner! The film stars Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, and we have five sets of official merchandise to give away. All you have to do to bagsy a set for yourself is to tell us who your Hollywood date would be and why
When a local Texas policeman, Steve Russell (Jim Carrey), turns to cons and fraud to allow him to change his lifestyle (in more ways than one), his subsequent stay in the state penitentiary results in his meeting the love of his life, a sensitive fellow inmate named Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). Hot. And Carry’s a granddad you know! And still – hot. Nice hair too.
For your chance to win this amazing prize, all you need to do is tell us who your dream Hollywood date would be. Mine would be Michael Douglas. Is that still acceptable?
Our top five confessors will get the chance to win one of five of sets of I Love You Phillip Morris goodies, and who knows, perhaps will bung ‘em in the magazine and you’ll see your name grace GT’s glossy pages!
Email your confession, along with your full name and address to edit@gaytimes.co.uk with ‘Phillip’ in the subject line.
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Ewan McGregor Not Interested in Trainspotting Sequel
Yesterday during an interview with Ewan McGregor for Roman Polanski’s (whose name has been mysteriously missing from the synopsis, press notes and other promotional pieces – more on that later) The Ghost Writer, he briefly spoke about the rumor about Danny Boyle tackling a Trainspotting sequel. Although it might be fun to get the gang back together in their 40’s to see where they’re at, McGregor said he wasn’t interested for one very good reason….
Danny Boyle talked about doing a Trainspotting sequel with the guys in their 40s. Does that sound good to you?
McGregor: It doesn’t sound great to me because I didn’t hugely love the book. The sequel to Trainspotting, the novel, is a book called Porno and I didn’t think it was as amazing. The novel Trainspotting is quite an amazing book.
Would the sequel to the movie have to be “Porno”?
McGregor: It would be… I think that’s what they’re talking about.
How nice is it to hear that an actor doesn’t want to return to a guaranteed hit because the material isn’t that good?! That someone is finally saying, let’s not do a half-assed sequel just because!
In a world where all that we see are remakes and sequels, it’s nice to know that it’s not all about that, for many people in Hollywood it’s still about creating good work. And if you want to see good work, check out The Ghost Writer, we’ll have Ewan’s full interview popping up soon.
McGregor Plans Another Bike Trip
Ewan McGregor is planning to take a break from his movie career to head out on another round-the-world motorbike trip.
The Trainspotting star teamed up with his pal Charley Boorman for a marathon motorcycle trip in 2004.
The pair spent four months on the road travelling from London to New York and covered a cumulative distance of 22,345 miles (35,960 kilometres).
They filmed the trip for their Long Way Round television series, which also spawned a bestselling book of the same name.
Now McGregor wants to do it all again – he’s planning more adventures for this summer after a family vacation with his wife, Eve Mavrakis, and their children.
He says, “I’ve done a lot of hard work recently and I admit that after a burst of intense creativity I’ve got a bit of wanderlust. I’ve still got the bike and it’s now got a sidecar on it, so I’ll take my dog Sid along with me this time.
“I want to have our summer holidays as a family and then I’d like to get going. It would be a fantastic thing to do. It’ll be good to get my leathers and my goggles on again.”
Ewan McGregor Talks Polanski, ‘The Ghost Writer’ and Quoting ‘Star Wars’
In a career that has seen him play a heroin addict, a glam rocker, a Jedi Master, and a English poet — among many others — Scottish actor Ewan McGregor has amassed a ridiculously diverse body of work since his 1993 debut as Alvarez in ‘Being Human.’
With his breakthrough role three years later in Danny Boyle’s ‘Trainspotting,’ McGregor quickly established himself as a serious and versatile actor who could carry a movie on his performance alone.
As the titular character in Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost Writer,’ McGregor plays a writer assigned to handle the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister and discovers a shadowy plot to … well, we won’t ruin it. But he did earn the honor of becoming the first Moviefone subject to successfully use the word “pernickety” twice in one interview.
Ewan McGregor: Filthy and Gorgeous
The Scottish actor has never been afraid to take chances, drop his trousers, or kiss a boy. Now he comes clean.
Sydney, Ewan McGregor’s sand-colored poodle mutt, is pooping on a well-kempt lawn in Los Angeles. He eyes the horizon, birds chirp, and McGregor readies the bag. Suddenly, a black Kerry terrier appears, held by a peroxide septuagenarian wearing a too-loose vintage Brentwood marathon T-shirt and too-tight spandex shorts. Sydney, torn by two competing passions, seems unable to decide whether to lunge immediately or finish his business. His eyes dart back and forth. Then, in a beige flash, Sydney makes up his mind, leaving the poop half in and half out. Moments later, sheepishly, tenderly, McGregor tidies Sydney up with a napkin cadged from Le Pain Quotidien. “Ah,” he murmurs quietly, “my wee man, Syd.” The tone of the day is set.
An hour later, the three of us are sitting on a picnic bench atop Inspiration Point at the summit of Will Rogers Park in Pacific Palisades. Well, two of us are sitting. McGregor’s lying on the bench, face up, bum westerly, legs spread in the air, illustrating an early professional mishap of onstage nudity. The incident in question involved one inopportunely placed vase full of water, two spills (the vase’s and, shortly thereafter, his), a racy Joe Orton farce, and a front row of British pensioners, alarmed and titillated by the fast-approaching naked rear end of the then 21-year-old Scot. “So I’m sliding toward the front row of the audience like this,” he says, “butt naked, and thinking, What of the front row? They just got my bumhole coming straight at them.” For those unlucky enough not to have been there, McGregor hasn’t been shy since.