Showing posts with label Ewan McGregor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ewan McGregor. Show all posts
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Thursday, February 16, 2017
New images of Belle, Beast, Gaston & more
This week's Entertainment Weekly includes a preview of Beauty and the Beast and four new images have already debuted online.
The site also shared a new behind the scenes photo of Emma Watson (Belle) with director Bill Condon and music supervisor Matt Sullivan.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
The site also shared a new behind the scenes photo of Emma Watson (Belle) with director Bill Condon and music supervisor Matt Sullivan.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
Monday, February 6, 2017
Belle, Beast, Lumiere & more enchant in eight new French character posters
The latest set of character posters feature Belle, Beast, and the enchanted objects, including a new look at Cadenza (Stanley Tucci). Check out all the previous Beauty and the Beast posters here.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
New 'Beauty and the Beast' motion character posters
In addition to the new Beauty and the Beast character posters, Disney also released a set of motion posters highlighting the enchanting cast of the live-action film.
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New character posters showcase 'Beauty and the Beast's enchanting cast
Disney debuted twelve new character posters this afternoon, including the Prince (Dan Stevens) in his royal celebration costume. Check out all the latest Beauty and the Beast posters here.
Monday, January 23, 2017
'Beauty and the Beast' Interview Round-Up #2
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January 22nd - January 28th
Dan Stevens Talks FX 'Legion' Role, Reacts To New 'Beauty And The Beast' Poster
Beauty And The Beast villain Luke Evans 'ready to be hated'
Click here to watch Sky News' interview with Luke Evans.
Why Ewan McGregor Had to Rerecord His Beauty and the Beast Song
"I hadn't been in a recording studio for a long time, and I was in a recording studio in London when we recorded the song for the first time. There was an enormous amount of pressure, I thought," he recalled. "I had only just arrived, I was jet lagged from LA. I got off a plane one day and the next day I was in a recording studio. It's very nerve-wracking recording, because you're in a quiet room and through the glass there's people who are looking at you, and they speak to each other and you can't hear them. In this instance there were 50 people in there, and I was standing jet lagged alone trying to sing in a French accent this big number. Every time I stopped they would go, 'OK, hang on,' [and talk amongst themselves]. I became terribly scared they were going, 'What the f--k are we going to do with him?'Read the full article from IGN here.
"We did it, it was fine, and then I asked Bill, I said, 'Look, when we're working on the dialogue next time, can I have another shot at it?'" McGregor continued. "So we went just privately, me and him and a few people in New York, and we recorded it a second time."
"I was in very good hands with Bill Condon, the director. I didn't think very much about it -- I just did it," McGregor said. "Partly that was interesting because I had to do a French accent, and I've been married to a French woman for 22 years, and my house is full of French every day. My kids all speak French to their mother, and I found it very difficult to do. I rather arrogantly thought I'd just be able to do this French accent without very much work, and when I tried to do it, I didn't do it very well. Also Disney wanted the full French sound, they didn't want the 'r' sound, so when you put an 'r' in a French accent it turns Spanish or Mexican, so that was an issue. I came back to it afterwards and rerecorded the whole thing again with Bill Condon in a studio, so we had two shots of it and we improved it. By that time, I'd got a handle on my French accent."
Ewan McGregor On Trainspotting and Being a Candlestick
"I've seen it, and [fans of the 1991 film] will be enraptured all over again."Read the entire article from Digital Spy here.
*Beauty and the Beast discussion begins at the 51:25 mark*
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Ewan McGregor discuses his French accent woes
It's not easy being green, or in Ewan McGregor's case, it's not easy being a suave French candelabra. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, McGregor, who plays Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, spoke about his return to movie musicals and the difficulties he faced taking on the character's signature French accent.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
“I’ve got four girls. My eldest is in her twenties now, of course, but still I’ve got a little one, who’s 5, and when an opportunity like this comes along, to be in a film they will watch, then it’s nice. It’s nice to get the opportunity to sing again in a film. It’s been a long time since I got the chance to do a big number, like I had the opportunity [to do] in Moulin Rouge. And I get this great number, ‘Be Our Guest,’ which Lumière sings.”
“When they were shooting, they wanted to have all of our voices to act with, so Emma and Darren had characters to work with — that being our voices,” says the actor. “So, we went to London, we did some very quick accent-coaching [laughs], which in my case didn’t work out terribly well. My French didn’t really sound very French to begin with — it sounded a bit Spanish or something. And then some time later, I went over to New York, where Bill Condon [the film’s director] was doing all his post-production and I recorded the whole part again. I’d done a bit more work on the accent, so it sounded more French and I got rerecord the song. So, I got to do my whole performance again, which was a really nice opportunity. You don’t often get offered that. But I got a chance to have another crack at all of it!”Check out the full Beauty and the Beast first look article from Entertainment Weekly here.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
Bill Condon on "Be Our Guest": "I would guess that is pretty far up there in terms of most intricate and elaborate musical numbers ever shot.”
"Be Our Guest" is one of Beauty and the Beast's shining moments and is sure to once again be a stand out number in the live-action film. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, director Bill Condon described the sequence as "the most intricate thing [he's] ever worked on."
“Well, it’s interesting to do what is going to be our biggest musical number with nobody there, except for some cutaways to Belle. It’s a four-minute number that cost more than Mr. Holmes’ entire budget. We shot it with first and second unit for over a month and it’s taken over a year to put it together — and six months before that to plan it. I would guess that is pretty far up there in terms of most intricate and elaborate musical numbers ever shot.”Anthony Van Laast took on the challenge of creating choreography for the enchanted object.
“We just spent months and months and months and months. Anthony [Van Laast] choreographed it, and we took that into a kind of computer world, and applied it to the characters. It’s going to feel very real. Photo real. It’s the most intricate thing I’ve ever worked on.”
The sequence’s dancing was overseen by Beauty and the Beast choreographer Anthony Van Laast (Mamma Mia!), who admits it hadn’t occurred to him that he would be designing dance-steps for a candelabra, a clock, and a teapot, among other objects, when he took the job. “The biggest challenge has been doing the choreography for the animation, which I hadn’t really thought about when Bill approached me,” he says. “I’d never really thought about [it]. I mean, I’d seen a hundred animation films before but I’d never really thought that some choreographer had put it all together. Of course, a choreographer put it all together! So suddenly there I am with ‘Be Our Guest,’ and I’m thinking, God, this is a huge number to choreograph, using animation. Then we started talking about pre-views, and I had no idea what a pre-view was!”Ewan McGregor, who plays Lumiere in the film, was not as enchanted by the experience of doing motion capture for the sequence.
Sorry, do you mean, pre-viz? “Pre-viz!” he laughs. “See, I can’t even say it! I didn’t know what it was, so I went on a little course to learn about pre-viz, and then we’ve done all of the choreography for ‘Be Our Guest’ using pre-viz, and using motion capture, and me choreographing things on dancers, and then transferring that onto various characters. The teapot is limited in the way that they don’t have any legs. But Lumière is a full mover, so we’re choreographing Lumière, we’re choreographing Plumette. We’ve got these wonderful sort of flying sequences going into Esther Williams patterns.”
“It’s not very graceful doing mo-cap. You’re dressed in a skintight suit with balls stuck all over you and you’ve got to wear a very stupid hat. It’s not your proudest moment. And, of course, everyone wants to come and watch, so there’s like 50 people standing behind the camera. [Laughs] I had to say, ‘Look, I can’t do it, you’ve got to get everyone out!’”After all that, Emma Watson (Belle) says all the hullabaloo was "worth it in the end."
“It was really just very technical, and because it was so technical, really sort of painstaking,” says Watson. “Yeah, it was tricky. But I think it looks spectacular, and it all paid off — so all worth it in the end!”Source: Entertainment Weekly
Thursday, October 27, 2016
New interviews with Ewan McGregor, Josh Gad & more
Ewan McGregor (Lumiere)
The Hollywood Reporter: Ewan McGregor Recalls Embarrassing First Meeting With George Lucas, Talks Directorial Debut
Josh Gad (Le Fou)
Luke Evans (Gaston)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Plumette)
Source: Live with Kelly, HeyUGuys, MTV, Entertainment Tonight, The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter: Ewan McGregor Recalls Embarrassing First Meeting With George Lucas, Talks Directorial Debut
QUESTION: I’m a sophomore film major here t LMU. And I was wondering how do you approach a character like Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast? That was originated in an animated feature.
MCGREGOR: You just approach every character like it’s a brand new thing, it’s a new clean slate. The fact that it’s been done before is neither here nor there really or me. I mean I think if they wanted to just that character again, that’s not true because he sort of did create that character. I don’t know the answer to your question. [LAUGHTER] I just approach it like I would everything else. I mean I didn’t spend time watching the original animation and trying to make my Lumiere like that. I mean I must have seen it in the past. And I got a very strong sense of who he was from the script. And I assume that the script was this version of this film we were making, not the animation. And so I sort of made him like that. But the nice thing about Lumiere and in this case was that I got to do it several times. He is animated in most of the film and then at the end, when we’re released from the curse, it’s me. And that meant I was allowed to record all of the dialogue just fresh. And then I was able to do it again. The challenge was the French accent because they wanted a sound. They didn’t want me to do the French R sound. And when you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican. [LAUGHTER] So I had to try...
GALLOWAY: Did you speak French?
MCGREGOR: My wife’s French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I’ve lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life. But I found that a bit of a challenge. So anyway, we went back and we re-recorded it all again and I’m happy to say it sounds a bit more French though.
Josh Gad (Le Fou)
Luke Evans (Gaston)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Plumette)
Source: Live with Kelly, HeyUGuys, MTV, Entertainment Tonight, The Hollywood Reporter
Sunday, July 3, 2016
'Beauty and the Beast' News Round-Up #34
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Countdown to 'Beauty and the Beast' #13
Trivia Tuesday- "Get your own movie!"
Prior to the June 2002 release of Lilo and Stitch, Disney released a series of teaser trailers with Stitch causing trouble in a number of classic animated features, including Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and The Lion King. In the Beauty and the Beast trailer, Stitch causes a ruckus as the chandelier crashes to the ground and interrupts the pair's romantic night.
Belle and Beast also appear on the Lilo & Stitch poster, alongside Aladdin, Dopey, Tinker Bell, and more.
Throwback Thursday- He can sing! He can dance!
One year ago this week, Ewan McGregor (Lumiere) attended the Edinburgh International Film Festival for an "In Person" event to discuss his varied career, from Trainspotting to Moulin Rouge! and now Beauty and the Beast. During the discussion, McGregor gave a bit of an off-kilter performance of "Be Our Guest" for the crowd and spoke with great enthusiasm about working with Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, and Ian McKellen on the film, a sentiment he has shared in other interviews over the past several months.
McGregor was back in the studio a few months ago to work on "Be Our Guest" with director Bill Condon.
Saturday, May 21, 2016
'Beauty and the Beast' News Round-Up #29
Friday, May 13, 2016
Ewan McGregor on his "daunting role" in 'Beauty and the Beast'
In a new interview with the Empire Film Podcast, Ewan McGregor discusses his role of Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, calling it a "daunting role," but one that was "great fun to do."
The Ewan McGregor portion of the podcast begins at 12:50 and the Beauty and the Beast discussion begins at 22:25.
Source: Empire Film Podcast
The Ewan McGregor portion of the podcast begins at 12:50 and the Beauty and the Beast discussion begins at 22:25.
Source: Empire Film Podcast
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Ewan McGregor: "Recording the big 'Be Our Guest' song was just fantastically fun"
In a new interview with Collider, Ewan McGregor spoke about his role as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, including working with director Bill Condon and recording "Be Our Guest" for the film.
Source: Collider
Could you ever have imagined that you could add playing Lumiere, the Beast’s singing candelabra, in a live-action Beauty and the Beast film? What was that experience like, making that film with Bill Condon?
McGregor: It’s no different to anything else. It’s interesting because it’s partly animated, but partly not. Voicing an animation is a process. They partly animated off of what you’ve done, and you partly perform off of what they’ve done. It’s a nice collaboration. I really like working with Bill Condon. He’s a director I’d love to work with again. And there are some great actors in it – Stanley Tucci, Emma Thompson, Sir Ian McKellen. We had a great time together when we were working on set. And then, I’ve enjoyed working with Bill on the post-production side of it, as well. And recording the big “Be Our Guest” song was just fantastically fun, and nothing something I’ve done in quite awhile. I haven’t recorded a song for a movie since Moulin Rouge, so it’s been quite a long time.
Source: Collider
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Countdown to 'Beauty and the Beast' #6
Trivia Tuesday- The (almost) voice of Belle
It is almost impossible to imagine Belle without Paige O'Hara's voice, but if production had gone another way, it may have been a little difficult to tell the difference between the peculiar book worm and another splashy Disney princess. Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid, was actually once considered for the role of Belle. In Disney's Art of Animation, author Bob Thomas notes that while some preferred Benson, lyricist Howard Ashman saw Ariel as "the all-American girl kind of voice, where as Paige had the vocal quality of a classic fairy tale."
Saturday, April 23, 2016
'Beauty and the Beast' News Round-Up #26
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Countdown to 'Beauty and the Beast' #5
Trivia Tuesday-Original Version of "Be Our Guest"
♫Yes, you're cold. Yes, you're wet, but we'll help you to forget.
You won't know outside it's storming when the silverware's performing.♫
It is not uncommon for stories to go through many changes during the animation process and Disney's Beauty and the Beast is no exception. One significant change was the placement of the song "Be Our Guest," which originally appeared earlier in the film and was actually sung to Belle's father Maurice. After a screening of the film during production, Bruce Woodside, a member of the film's story team, suggested the song should be sung to Belle since she was the film's protagonist. The group agreed and lyricist Howard Ashman rewrote parts of the song while storyboards were altered to include Belle. Performed by Jerry Orbach (Lumiere) and Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts) in the film, "Be Our Guest" was one of three songs from Beauty and the Beast nominated for an Academy Award in 1992 (the film's title song took home the Oscar that year).
Sunday, April 3, 2016
'Beauty and the Beast' News Round-Up #23
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Countdown to Beauty and the Beast #2
Beauty and the Beast at the 64th Academy Awards
Ewan McGregor: "It was fun to be part of that."
Ewan McGregor: "I think he's really the right guy to make that film."
Friday, April 1, 2016
Ewan McGregor: "I think he's really the right guy to make that film."
Ewan McGregor recently sat down for an interview with Collider, which covers everything from his latest film, Miles Ahead, to the actor's upcoming directorial debut, American Pastoral, and, of course, his role as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast. In the interview, McGregor looks back fondly on his time on the London set, sitting around in "fantastic clothes" with his fellow enchanted objects, including Emma Thompson, Ian McKellen, and Stanley Tucci. McGregor also revealed that he still has some recording to do for the film, but unlike his co-star Ian McKellen, he has not seen the film.
Jump to the 7:10 mark for Beauty and the Beast.
Source: Collider
Jump to the 7:10 mark for Beauty and the Beast.
Source: Collider
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Ewan McGregor: "It was fun to be part of that."
While promoting his new film Miles Ahead, Ewan McGregor also spoke briefly to Entertainment Tonight about his role as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast and working with the film's all-star cast.
Source: Entertainment Tonight
Source: Entertainment Tonight
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