Ewan McGregor is about to obtain the Honorary Dragon Award at this yr’s Göteborg Movie Pageant in Sweden.
The “Star Wars” and “Trainspotting” star will attend the competition to gather the honour and take part in an Actors Discuss. He will even be current on the Nordic premiere of his newest movie, Niclas Larsson’s “Mom, Sofa,” and a retrospective of his most notable movies can be featured on the competition.
“Ewan McGregor is an androgynous image of the Cool Britannia period, a romantic icon for the millennial era and a saber-swinging franchise holder within the pop-cultural heart of the galaxy. However above all, he’s an extremely expert artist,” Göteborg Movie Pageant inventive director Jonas Holmberg stated in an announcement. “By mastering stylized extravagance, literary precision and nuanced realism with the identical relaxed self-evidence, Ewan McGregor has proven that he is without doubt one of the really nice actors of our time.”
McGregor will obtain the award at a particular screening of Danny Boyle’s iconic 1996 movie “Trainspotting,” adopted by an on-stage dialog with the actor.
“Mom, Sofa” is a comedy drama based mostly on Jerker Virdborg’s novel “Mamma i soffa,” by which three kids are introduced collectively when their mom refuses to maneuver from a sofa in a furnishings retailer. Past McGregor, the forged contains Ellen Burstyn, Rhys Ifans, Lara Flynn Boyle and F. Murray Abraham.
Subsequent up for McGregor is Paramount+ and Showtime’s “A Gentleman in Moscow,” which he’s set to steer and govt produce. McGregor will play Rely Alexander Rostov, who spends a long time banished to an attic lodge room after the Russian Revolution.
Göteborg Movie Pageant runs from Jan. 26 to Feb. 4.
