Ewan McGregor receives lifetime honor at Göteborg Festival – The Hollywood Reporter

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Scottish star Ewan McGregor will receive this year’s Honorary Dragon Award, an honor for lifetime achievement, at the Gothenburg Film Festival in Sweden.

McGregor will attend the Göteborg event, which runs from January 26 to February 4, and give the Nordic premiere of his new film. Mother, couch. McGregor stars alongside Rhys Ifans and Lara Flynn Boyle, as three siblings who are brought together when their eccentric mother, played by Ellen Burstyn, sits on a sofa in an antique furniture store and refuses to get up. The film is directed by Swedish director Niklas Larsson. Mother, couch Adapted from the novel by Swedish writer Jerker Verdborg Mama and Sofa. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.

McGregor will receive the Dragon Award after the screening of his 1996 breakthrough film Discover trains He will then participate in an on-stage conversation.

“Ewan McGregor is an androgynous icon of cool Britain, a romantic icon for millennials, and a franchisee rocking the galaxy’s pop cultural epicenter,” said Jonas Holmberg, Gothenburg’s artistic director. “But above all, he is an incredibly skilled artist. By mastering stylized opulence, literary precision, and meticulous realism with the same relaxed self-evidence, Ewan McGregor has shown himself to be one of the truly great actors of our time.”

Göteborg will also feature a retrospective of McGregor’s work, which ranged from independent features early in his career – Shallow grave, Copper off, Velvet goldmine — to Baz Luhrmann’s brilliant musical Moulin Rouge!– Military drama by Ridley Scott The black hawk has fallen And his version of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the kit star Wars Recent Disney+ movies and series. Other notable television roles include a dual role as twin brothers Emmit and Ray Stussy in the third season of the FX series. Fargo and the upcoming Paramount+/Showtime historical thriller Gentleman in Moscowwhere he will also star and executive produce.