Ewan McGregor quit booze after he kept turning up for work drunk
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Ewan McGregor has admitted he quit booze after he kept turning up for work drunk.
The teetotal Star Wars actor, 36, realised he would have to give up drinking or risk ruining his career and personal life.
“I had drunk enough – I had my share, your share, everyone’s share. I felt it was time to stop,” he said.
“It was a clear point for me. Things were going to go downhill with my work and with every other aspect of my life. “It was the thing that was expendable.”
The Scottish star admitted he even turned up on film sets drunk.
He said: “It’s the road to ruin. It’s not good.
“You can scramble through and I did but you lose all your choice.
“You find a way to play it [the role] and you can play it like that but if you’re sober you get all your choice back.”
He said he would never go back to drinking, adding: “I’m too happy without it. “It’s just my life. I don’t drink and I don’t miss it. I don’t want to,” he said on ITV’s Parkinson.
And he admitted that working with notorious bad boy Colin Farrell on new film Cassandra’s Dream was great fun.
“He’s not a hell raiser any more. We had a great time. We didn’t raise any hell at all,” he laughed. Working with Woody Allen fulfilled a great ambition for McGregor.
He said: “It was a great pleasure. I’ve always wanted to work with him. “The man has made so many movies. He just shoots everything so quickly. “You do the whole scene from start to finish. It’s more like real life in a way.
“It keeps it very real. I just loved him as well.”
McGregor is best known for his role as a heroin addict in Trainspotting, but has played the leading man against many Hollywood beauties like Nicole Kidman and Cameron Diaz. He starred as a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, a role first made famous by Sir Alex Guinness in the original films. The Scot has also lent his voice to two animated films, in Robots and Valiant.
