Ewan McGregor Reveals Why He Took Gay Role ‘Halston’ Amid Backlash Ewan McGregor is speakg up amid backlash. The 50-year-old Star Wars actor, who will star the upg Halston TV seri produced by Ryan Murphy as the fashn…
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- 'BEGNERS': A SON'S 'LOVE LETTER' TO HIS GAY FATHER
- EWAN MCGREGOR REVEALS WHY HE TOOK GAY ROLE 'HALSTON' AMID BACKLASH
- WATCH: EWAN MCGREGOR GETS TO KNOW HIS GAY FATHER ‘BEGNERS’
- EWAN MCGREGOR TALKS ‘BEGNERS’ AND GAY ROL: “I’M TERTED SEXUALY AND SEX, RELATNSHIPS AND LOVE AND WHAT MAK TICK.”
'BEGNERS': A SON'S 'LOVE LETTER' TO HIS GAY FATHER
The movie Begners stars Ewan McGregor as a young man who learns that his 75-year-old father, played by Christopher Plummer, is gay. The movie is based on filmmaker Mike Mills' own life. Mills explas what happened when his own dad me out. * ewan mcgregor gay dad *
Six months later, Mills' father — a 75-year-old retired mm director — announced that he's gay.
The movie stars Ewan McGregor as a graphic signer whose 75-year-old father, played by Christopher Plummer, has jt e out and wants to experience the gay life he nied himself when he was married. Mills says he remembers the day that his own father took him asi and told him that he didn't jt want to be "theoretilly gay" — that he wanted to do somethg about the feelgs he had reprsed for s. The next day, we're stg on the uch and he said 'I'm gay.
EWAN MCGREGOR REVEALS WHY HE TOOK GAY ROLE 'HALSTON' AMID BACKLASH
Starrg as a gay father's son Begners, Ewan McGregor cracks open the Hollywood closet, challeng sual homophobia, and nsirs the legacy of I Love You Phillip Morris. * ewan mcgregor gay dad *
Based on the real-life experienc of filmmaker Mike Mills, Begners (openg June 3 limed release) stars Ewan McGregor as Oliver, the only son of a recently widowed man who out as gay at age 75. At 81, the prolific Christopher Plummer plays Oliver's dad, Hal, who, only five years before his own ath, mak a big splash the gay social scene and sr a much younger boyiend.
WATCH: EWAN MCGREGOR GETS TO KNOW HIS GAY FATHER ‘BEGNERS’
No stranger to queer cema -- the 40-year-old St has played gay or bisexual such films as The Pillow Book, Velvet Goldme, and last year's I Love You Phillip Morris -- McGregor opens up to The Advote about his personal g-out stori and his optimistic asssment of the morn gay You obvly have much more experience wh gay rol than your Begners star, Christopher Plummer. For one of the exercis, I threw a lunch for Christopher and all the actors who play his gay iends the movie.
Most of those guys are gay men real life, so some of them went around the table and talked about their g-out stori and how different they all anyone ever e out to you? Well, there are a lot of out gay people the entertament bs.
EWAN MCGREGOR TALKS ‘BEGNERS’ AND GAY ROL: “I’M TERTED SEXUALY AND SEX, RELATNSHIPS AND LOVE AND WHAT MAK TICK.”
You make sound like the entertament bs is an environment where gay people don't feel happy to be gay. On the whole, you fd lots and lots of out gay people the entertament bs who are que fortably, that's te. You're really talkg about the top echelons of Hollywood, and that's where beg gay might matter.
I'm not gay myself, so I don't know what prsur there would be if I was a gay man this dtry, but you would hope that wouldn't even be an issue. I've never worked wh an actor that I know to be gay but who isn't out -- not that I know of. I have worked wh a lot of out gay actors.