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11/02/2012 16:11 with a wry smile and the slightest hint of pride. The actor of 41 years has long been a motorcycle enthusiast (or, as he calls his cadence slight Scottish motorcycles), the. Once traveled from London to New York via Europe, Asia and Canada, as well as his native Scotland to South Africa "Whenever I climb a smile on my face," he said, but it is not immune to occasional horizontal parking. Louis Vuitton Epi Leather bags "I was on my bike [recently] for the first time in years," he said, a little embarrassed. "I cooked a corner and I slid my bike." It is clear that the tragic fate of an expensive turn dozen motorcycle was even more painful than his own abrasions in his collection. "I just had the scrape on my elbow. But the wheel was very bad, because the left side of the motorcycle slid and hit the tire turned to the right, so it f'ed the other side of the motorcycle. This is a disaster . But in a way, "he recalls," it reminded me why I love motorcycles []. " There is something about holding the ubiquitous element of danger, the strong sense McGregor, and he admits he enjoys a similar element of risk and adrenaline as an actor. A friend has recently seen an email McGregor a link to a video of one of his previous cinematic representations in Velvet Goldmine, he had no more than a decade. It's a seat-of-his-pants, live concert in front of hundreds of extras than 70 character Ziggy Stardust-esque glam rocker years. "It was like watching someone else, because I have not seen for so long," he laughs. "It was one of those moments when you do not know what will happen ... those little moments that you know is to get done to you on the line, really. I like it, I've always made my trailer , not knowing what will happen, and come back an hour later passed. ". This was interesting, I did not know what will happen," I love this part of the " The risk seems to fit him, especially now, as he approaches nearly two decades before the camera. Moulin Rouge: the beginning of his career was with an impressive number of different shows, relay filled early for director Danny Boyle in Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and A Life Less Ordinary film studio adventurous with managers-Author! Baz Luhrmann for Black Hawk Down, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton's Big Fish, and the prequel trilogy of Star Wars George Lucas. But in contrast to the career pages arches has a good portion of his contemporaries, McGregor is not only in constant demand, he remained 10 years younger than his age is, he has to work harder, while years. Her performance in The Ghost Writer, beginners, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen are as rich and varied as anything he made as a young, new face in Hollywood. McGregor's latest film is. Easily his most embarrassing since Black Hawk Down The Impossible tells the heartbreaking story of a family on the western Christmas vacation in Thailand when they are caught in the storm of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean. In a fictional version of the events that struck a real family, he and Naomi Watts, her costar in 2005 by stay-find themselves hopelessly separated from each other and their three children in the whirlwind, struggling to stay alive, and both desperately and horrified to learn what fate may happen to their loved ones. "There was something unusual about it," he said of his first reaction to the script. "I did not know what it is at first, but there were a few lines of dialogue that were truly astonishing in its honesty. I did not know it was from the perspective of a real family wrote when I".'ve Read ' And then I discovered later, a large number of lines of dialogue are, in fact, remember the lines that say family members or remember is heard. And that makes sense, somehow it is ... an exploration of this unique and strong bond we have with our children, although extreme in this regard. " "I was looking for someone with whom I look really sympathize with a simple way could have a sense of intimacy," says the film's director, Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage). "The type of player like Spencer Tracy or Gregory Peck. These people very human, humble, and the novelty Although Ewan was in very different genres roles of his career, the goodness and the goodness of his character, what I was looking for." One aspect of the role that had McGregor appeal the opportunity to play a stepfather, something must be done, in spite of four daughters (the oldest 16 years old, the youngest is still 2). In his off-field life with wife Eve Mavrakis "This is the first time, really, in my work I have examined what it means to be a father and I have one for 16 years," he said. "I mean," I have children. In the film, but it was never to speak what movies [But] I am a man who lives his life with a partner, and we have four children, making it the heart of who I am. This is the essence of who I am. " Although the role dramatizes one of the worst nightmare of every parent, he allowed McGregor revels in the novelty of playing a father of three son in the minority, genderwise in his own house, to the point that it was easier, of course, respond to the three young actors in the scenes, instead imagine the terror of his own children in danger. "On stage, I was with my three boys in the film," he says. "I enjoyed their company so much that I just think of it, really. I have not spent time on the board think of my children ... It was so different. I really do not know what it is to have boys is so I like them because they're great guys. " While his prolific output gives the impression that McGregor has tirelessly in recent years he worked enjoyed his first real break in a while summering in Los Angeles and in Europe with his family and make the most out of their time together. "I think this is the longest time I did not spend my whole career," he thought. "My baby is 21 months to spend the majority of this year with her at home and on vacation, c It's just fun to have that kind of continuity with them. You are not rushing to go back for a few weeks, plunged again. To be safe at home is a real treat. There was a time when I work, work, write, and weeks at home here and there, and it's not good for anyone. " He has another feature of the high-level fashion director Bryan Singer fantasy Jack the Giant Killer ", run a real gung-ho, Errol Flynn-type knight, but then f until he tried to do so there is something a little fumbly and stupid of him that I really liked, "And he is finally filming adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama August: Osage County, opposite Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, and admits, after a few days. "Itch I m back on the set with very good players and a really good role." Questioning the precise reasons for its current, McGregor decides that it is not because the industry-Hollywood has the code on how best to use the cracked. "I've never seen, nor the feeling that Hollywood wants nothing to do with me," he laughs. "Hollywood is so immediate. This is what you have, what is true and sad when things do not work ... they're like, 'Okay, go!" Some commercial spirit of the movies that have not been proven for some blockbuster hits Years back, the enthusiasm of the industry to be cooled him as a big movie star one of the island producers said in the press, but McGregor simply look for pieces that tested him to completely happy with the job description of the actor. It is a calling, he had, as far as he can remember dreaming, and felt possible, even in his small hometown of Crieff Scotland, his parents were teachers, but there was an accomplished actor in the family. (His uncle, maternal Denis Lawson, was well known in the UK film and television productions and starred in the original three Star Wars movies.) "I never look at the alternative. I always thought that work there I would never have thought that it is not, "he said, remembers leaving school early stage to pursue." But I always wanted to make films, and fortunately it is all went well. I do not believe it, where you come from matters, I do not think it really works. what counts is what you can do in front of the camera, and what you want to work with. " "Now I know how I feel back in favor, when it was added such a thing, the work that I've done well lately," he says with characteristic enthusiasm. "[But] I still think I am good, and I've always done, though I should not be," he laughs. "But lately, I think it's to do with age. I Began to the point where there is more choice. Ago roles very well today. In your late 30s and 40, it starts to be really interesting, and I had the chance to be part of this kind of stuff lately. " After brushing pads career just as it dumping his bike McGregor is back on the bike, the engine roar us does. This is a long-distance runner. "I have the best time of my life," he said, adding: ". But I feel like I've always been" Read more at