Ewan Mcgregor in I love you Phillip Morris

Release date: 19 March 2010
Running time: 97 mins
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Starring: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro


Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor star in this outrageous true story about a conman who meets the love of his life - in prison.

Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) is a happily married police officer who plays the organ at church and prays every night with his wife (Leslie Mann). However, after finding and being rejected by the mother who gave him up as a baby, Steven leaves his family to be his true, flamboyantly gay self. He moves to Miami, finds a boyfriend (Rodrigo Santoro) and becomes a conman to pay for his lavish lifestyle. But Steven is sent to prison, were he meets and falls in love with Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). But Steven - a forlorn lover who cannot bear to be separated from his soulmate - will go to any lengths to be with Phillip, including breaking out of jail, impersonating Phillip's lawyer and fraudulently becoming the chief of a major corporation.

Screenplay: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

Here's a link to the trailer if you haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoFANivV44g

Ewan McGregor in Davidoff

Voted one of the worst adverts of all time, Ewan McGregors choice to do this advert has come under huge critisism from MANY different internet sites, most noticeably www.tvs-worst-adverts.co.uk/ewan-mcgregor-davidoff-adventure/ which I would highly recomend everyone read because it sums up everything I thought whilst watching this advert.

The advert plays on Ewan's previous, very successful, Long Way Round in which he and fellow celebrity Charley Boorman travelled 19,000 miles from London to New York on motorcycles.

I loved the series which I have started to watch again since beginning this section in our course.

Ewan McGregor on Stage

The first time I saw Ewan McGregor was on stage, playing Sky Masterson in the 2005 revival of Guys and Dolls.

Guys and Dolls was his first stage musical (although he had appeared on film in Moulin Rouge, 2001) and he admitted to feeling ‘concerned’ about the choreography and singing, which requires more stamina and training on stage than on film. He also took singing lessons ahead of the role.

He starred alongside Jane Krakowski as Miss Adelaide, Douglas Hodge as Nathan Detroit and Jenna Russell as Sarah Brown.

Guys and Dolls is set in the 19, the height of the prohibition years in America. Nathan Detroit, the owner of the local underground ‘floating’ casino, has run out of money, so can’t find a location for his next casino night – the only place he can find, the Biltmore Hotel garage, wants $1,000 in return. In an attempt to raise the money, he bets Sky Masterson, a successful gambler, that Sarah Brown, an unsuccessful missionary, will never go to Havana, Cuba, with Sky for the weekend. Sky sets off on his mission, but only has a few days to convince the stubborn Sarah. Meanwhile Nathan wants to marry Miss Adelaide, whom he has been engaged to for 14 years, but she won't marry him until he gives up gambling and goes straight…

The production was directed by Michael Grandage and produced by The Donmar Warehouse. It won Outstanding Musical Production and Best Actress in a Musical for Jane Krakowski at the 2006 Laurence Olivier Awards. McGregor received good reviews, but unfortunately wasn't nominated for any awards for his performance.