walking_carpet said:
digitalfreaknyc said:
Ewan got crap? He was fine.
That whole movie was a mess. It was like your dad telling you that he's taking you to the circus and when you get there, you witness a car-wreck.I meant to say - jake lloyd was happy to be on star wars - and so was ewan.
but they both feel differently now.
Don't lump McGregor in with Lloyd. While he's been critical about elements of the movies and admits the OT is better than the PT, McGregor's always been respectful and has said pretty good things about the "overall experience" and GL as well. This was actually posted to AV Club today:
AVC: Right now, Haywire and Perfect Sense are both out in theaters, Salmon Fishingis coming out, the Phantom Menace revival is out. How are you dealing with the press demands for four films at once?
EM: Luckily, I’m shooting something at the moment, so I have to kind of bear down, anyway. [Laughs.] ’Cause I don’t have time. I did a round of press for Haywire. Perfect Sense is a little film—they don’t have any money to publicize the film, really, so I’ve done a few phoners for that, but there hasn’t been a huge amount of press for that. And the Star Wars re-release, I haven’t been asked to any press at all for. I think it’s publicizing itself, because it’s Star Wars, y’know?
AVC: George Lucas seems like, famously, someone who wouldn’t work well with your methods: He doesn’t like rehearsal or, reportedly, a lot of spontaneous exploration on the set. How did you work together?
EM: Well, you still have to make the characters real and in the moment, and that’s your job, so that’s always gonna be the case there. The technical aspect of the Star Wars films is difficult, because there’s no environment. A lot of the time, anyway, we were working on bluescreen sets or greenscreen sets where there’s nothing there at all, and oftentimes, no other actor to work with. Somebody’s just reading lines off the side of the set, and you’re looking at a tennis ball on a stick. So that becomes much more of a technical exercise. But at the same time, it’s still going in the movie, and it still has to be believable. But I like working with George. I like very much being part of the legend of Star Wars. It’s nice to be in that.