{"id":48008,"date":"2024-03-19T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T11:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2010778"},"modified":"2024-03-19T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:00:39","slug":"ewan-mcgregor-is-this-weeks-radio-times-cover-star","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/ewan-mcgregor-is-this-weeks-radio-times-cover-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Ewan McGregor is this week\u2019s Radio Times cover star"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his Russian Revolution drama, relationships and why sex scenes are tricky \u2013 even with your wife! <\/p>

By Tom Loxley\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 19 March 2024 at 11:04 AM<\/p>

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The Russian Revolution and the turmoil that followed once proved rich territory for film-makers, from David Lean\u2019s Doctor Zhivago to Warren Beatty\u2019s Reds. But we haven\u2019t seen that much of revolutionary Russia on screen in recent years, possibly because the Russia we know today has more than enough drama going on in real time.<\/p>\n

But that changes this week on Paramount+<\/a> when Ewan McGregor becomes Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, the leading man in Amor Towles\u2019s bestseller A Gentleman in Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McGregor makes a wonderful Count, who is locked in a gilded cage after he strikes a deal with his Bolshevik captors to escape the firing squad as long as he doesn\u2019t leave his grand hotel. It\u2019s a story of confinement and romance as Rostov falls for a film star, Anna Urbanova, who is played by McGregor\u2019s wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s it like to play opposite your other half on screen? And how does that affect your performance, not least your approach to sex scenes? McGregor answers all these questions in a revealing interview in this issue, in which he also talks about family, his four daughters, accents and, of course, Star Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Also in this week\u2019s Radio Times:<\/strong><\/h2>\n