Scottish star Ewan McGregor will obtain this yr’s Honorary Dragon Award, a lifetime achievement honor, at Sweden’s Göteborg Movie Pageant.
McGregor will attend the Göteborg occasion, which runs from Jan. 26 to Feb. 4, and can current the Nordic premiere screening of his newest function, Mom, Sofa. McGregor stars alongside Rhys Ifans, and Lara Flynn Boyle as three siblings purchased collectively when their eccentric mom, performed by Ellen Burstyn, sits herself down on a sofa in a classic furnishings retailer and refuses to stand up. Directed by Swedish filmmaker Niclas Larsson, Mom, Sofa is tailored from Swedish creator Jerker Virdborg’s novel Mamma i soffa. The movie premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant final yr.
McGregor will obtain his Dragon Award following a screening of his 1996 breakthrough Trainspotting after which he’ll participate in an on-stage dialog.
“Ewan McGregor is an androgynous image of the Cool Britannia period, a romantic icon for the millennial technology, and a saber-swinging franchise holder within the pop-cultural middle of the galaxy,” mentioned Göteborg inventive director Jonas Holmberg. “However above all, he’s an extremely expert artist. By mastering stylized extravagance, literary precision, and nuanced realism with the identical relaxed self-evidence, Ewan McGregor has proven that he is likely one of the actually nice actors of our time.”
Göteborg will even display a retrospective of McGregor’s work, which has ranged from the impartial options of his early profession — Shallow Grave, Brassed Off, Velvet Goldmine — to Baz Luhrmann’s splashy musical Moulin Rouge!, Ridley Scott’s navy drama Black Hawk Down and his interpretation of Obi-Wan Kenobi in a number of Star Wars movies and the current Disney+ sequence. Different notable TV roles embody the twin function as twin brothers Emmit and Ray Stussy in season 3 of FX’s Fargo and the upcoming Paramount+/Showtime historic thriller A Gentleman in Moscow, by which he’ll star and in addition govt produce.
