Ewan McGregor To Receive Honorary Dragon Award At Göteborg Film Festival
deadline.comSweden’s Göteborg Film Festival has tapped actor Ewan McGregor to receive its honorary dragon award for career achievement during its 47th edition, running from January 26 to February 4.
McGregor will attend Göteborg to receive the award, participate in an ‘actors talk’ Q&A session, and present the Nordic premiere of Niclas Larsson’s Mother, Couch, in which he plays the leading role alongside Taylor Russell.
The festival will also host a retrospective of McGregor’s films. Some of McGregor’s most notable credits include Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!, and the Star Wars trilogy.
The Scottish actor is next set to exec produce and star in Paramount+ & Showtime’s A Gentleman in Moscow. “Ewan McGregor is an androgynous symbol of the Cool Britannia era, a romantic icon for the millennial generation, and a saber-swinging franchise holder in the pop-cultural center of the galaxy,” said Jonas Holmberg, artistic director of the Göteborg Film Festival. “But above all, he is an incredibly skilled artist.
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