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First look: OUR KIND OF TRAITOR

12 Tuesday Apr 2016

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Ewan McGregor, John le Carré, Our Kind of Trator, San Francisco International Film Festival, Stellan Skarsgård

 

Stellan Skarsgård is a boisterous Russian who pulls poetry professor Ewan McGregor into his plans to defect in this adaptation of a John le Carré thriller. Looking forward to getting an early peek at it when it makes its international premiere on Sunday, May 1, at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

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When Ewan met Iggy

18 Friday Nov 2011

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Beginners, Ewan McGregor, Iggy Pop, Todd Haynes, Velvet Goldmine

The release of the Beginners DVD this week reminded me of a story that Ewan McGregor told on himself when he came through San Francisco in April for that film’s opening night screening at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The conversation turned to Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine and his role as Iggy Pop-like rock icon Curt Wild. For the actor, making the movie was a singular experience in which he got to sing live, dropping his trousers while singing The Stooges’ “TV Eye” during his character’s memorable introduction at an outdoor music festival and later performing “Gimme Danger” at Brixton Academy.

“I really did it. I told Todd Haynes, ‘I’ll only do this if you let me sing live,’ and he did,” McGregor said.

Several years later, he heard that Iggy was going be playing at a fashion show and he jumped at the chance to meet Curt Wild’s real-life counterpart.

“I had never been a fashion show. It was back in the day and I was very, very drunk,” he recalled.

It didn’t dawn on him until he was backstage that Iggy Pop maybe hadn’t seen Velvet Goldmine and wouldn’t necessarily understand the connection between his legendary self and his eager (if tipsy) young visitor.

“He didn’t remember that I had played him in the movie or that he’d given his permission to use all his songs,” McGregor said, cringing at the memory. “I’m standing there in this dressing room, Iggy Pop’s dressing room, after the show, I kind of came to and I was doing him for him. I was doing Iggy Pop in front of him, and I went, ‘What the fuck am I doing?’

“I got out of there as quickly as I could before I died of embarrassment. It was horrible.” – Pam Grady

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