Ewan McGregor owns a house in sunny Southern California and enjoys in-demand status in Hollywood after 30 years in the business (he'll next star in A gentleman in Moscow, released on Paramount+ with Showtime this month). Despite everything, the Scots actor began to feel a “pull” to return home as he reached his fifties. “I never saw it coming, it’s weird,” he says ANNOUNCEMENT. “I spoke to Craig Ferguson (comedian and TV personality) about it, he went back to Scotland and when I called him he said, 'Oh yeah, you're just that age.' You just reach an age where it's time to go home.
This moment was approaching about a year and a half ago. McGregor and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, bought a house in Scotland, which allowed him to reconnect not only with his native country but also with his family. Living across the world and managing his career, the Emmy winner hadn't had much quality time with his brother, Colin McGregor, over the years, and although they had made a few documentaries together, they had not lived in the same place since the brief period decades ago when the pair were roommates in a flat in Hampstead, London, with Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller. When the opportunity to explore the Highlands, where they holidayed with their family as young boys, arose via Expedia's Local Lens video series, they seized it.
“I knew it would be a really nice thing to do with him because it just gives us a chance to spend time together, which isn't always the case when you both work and live in different places ” McGregor said. said. “Something I realized that I had missed my whole adult life was just being able to come see my brother whenever I wanted.”
THE pictures of their Highland adventure shows that McGregor approached the trip with the zeal of a tourist who had never laid eyes on this rugged landscape before. Radiating from his surroundings as he walks the streets, a trace of true belief is detectable as the actor laughingly remarks, “I think he who made the world started with ScotlandI understood well. » Below, McGregor shares his travel tips for getting the most out of a visit to his home sweet home.
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McGregor loves it when people regale him with stories of their trips to Scotland, although he reckons the average traveler would be well served by going a little further off the beaten track.
