Variety Features Ewan McGregor Posted By Joshua on October 29, 2002
Also tells TFN that Variety has a new feature up today on Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor. Here's a clip from the end of the piece:
"Another thing about Ewan is that he's a major international star," adds Tom Rothman, co-chairman of 20th Century Fox, home of five McGregor vehicles so far and the studio for which McGregor will start shooting another "Star Wars" installment next year. "A lot of the pictures he's done, and not just 'Star Wars,' do enormous business internationally." (In fact, the foreign B.O. for most pics in which McGregor has a key role outpace their domestic gross by a significant margin.)
"This will be the third 'Star Wars' with him and it has been an incredible journey to watch him grow," says the pic's producer Rick McCallum. "He's so focused, so on, and so giving with everyone around him. He and Sam Jackson set the standard on the set. No one misbehaves because they're so decent."
Concludes Luhrmann: "He's right center stage now in etching this body of work. He hasn't arrived -- he is."