Bearded Ewan McGregor beams as he joins Marvel stars Mads Mikkelsen and Tom Hiddleston at Tokyo Comic-Con
Ewan McGregor seemed to be in high spirits as he took the stage to talk to fans at Tokyo Comic-Con on Sunday.
The 52-year-old Star Wars actor was joined on stage by Marvel stars Evangeline Lilly, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mads Mikkelsen and Tom Hiddleston.
Ewan looked casual in a gray wool jacket, which he paired with a pair of dark jeans, boots and a blue scarf.
The Golden Globe winner was seen posing with hammers alongside actor Loki Tom.
Later during the Q&A, Ewen FaceTimed his wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead to show her around the stunning audience.
Ewan McGregor seemed to be in high spirits as he took the stage to talk to fans at Tokyo Comic-Con on Sunday.
The 52-year-old Star Wars actor was joined on stage by Marvel stars Evangeline Lilly, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mads Mikkelsen and Tom Hiddleston.
It comes after Ewan revealed his changed outlook on parenting after his new wife Mary had a baby.
The actor was married to his first wife Eva Mavrakis, 56, for 22 years and the couple have four daughters. But in 2017, he was photographed kissing his 37-year-old Fargo co-star Mary Elizabeth, which led to his divorce in 2020 and a second marriage in April this year.
Ewan and Mary have a one-year-old son, Laurie, and in a candid interview with British GQ, the actor opened up about his two decades of parenting, including his “difficult” period of estrangement from his eldest daughter Clara.
The Scottish star explained how lockdown had changed his outlook on balancing career and family as he realized it had been decades since he had stayed in one place for more than a few months.
“I just want to be present. I don’t want to go to Romania for four months,” he told GQ. “If it’s supposed to happen, maybe it should happen, but I’m trying really hard not to.”
Referring to the years he spent raising his four daughters, Clara, 26, Jamyan, 20, Esther, 19, and Anouk, 10, which coincided with his meteoric career rise after Trainspotting, Ewen reflected: ” Before, I just felt like a gypsy. I was always the father first, but I was often absent.”
Ewan and Mary first met on the set of Fargo in 2016, before the actress split from her husband of seven years, Riley Stearns, in May 2017. Ewan then split from Eva in January 2017 and filed for divorce.
Ewan and his eldest daughter Clara, 26, have had a rocky relationship as she famously branded her father’s second wife a “piece of rubbish” and her father an “asshole” when photographs of them kissing first emerged.
Father and daughter have mended their relationship over the past five years and recently completed their first project together.
You Sing Louder, I Sing Louder is the film she conceived of Clara, in which Ewan explains his daughter’s idea to him: “She tells me she came up with the idea of writing about us. At first I was a little nervous. I didn’t know what that meant.
Ewan kept things casual in a navy blue shirt, which he paired with a pair of black trousers and boots.
The Golden Globe winner was seen posing with hammers alongside actor Loki Tom.
Later during the Q&A, Ewen FaceTimed his wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead to show her around the stunning audience.
Ewan McGregor has opened up about his changing views on parenting, including his estrangement from daughter Clara, with whom he worked on a film this year (pictured in 2018).
Ewan and his second wife Mary Elizabeth have one-year-old son Laurie, and the actor has promised to pay more attention to his fifth child.
Ewen was married to his first wife Eva Mavrakis, 56, for 22 years and the couple have four daughters. But in 2017, he was photographed kissing Mary Elizabeth and they separated, with the divorce finalized in 2020.
The film follows a father-daughter journey as Ewan’s character takes his daughter, played by Clara, to rehab. Although this endeavor is fictional, the premise of a father trying to help his daughter is based on Clara’s own experiences.
“I sat down to read this and was shocked. It was a beautiful story about us. There are things that are inaccurate or distorted, but they still reflect our alienation for a while,” the actor explained.
“The drive is fictional. But for a couple of years we kind of lost it. So the storyline is about her realizing that she needs help, which her father is trying to provide. Along the way, their relationship somewhat improves.”
“I was very impressed by the story and the humor. There is a kind of recognition in this that made me very proud and at the same time very close to her. I thought she understood more than I thought.”
When asked by GQ magazine what he thought his daughter understood, Ewan clarified: “My position, as well as questions about raising those who are in trouble. This is a damn terribly difficult situation. You’re so afraid of what might happen. You will do anything in the world not to lose them.”
He later reflected in a rare comment about his messy breakup with Clara’s mother: “Divorce in the family was a bomb that exploded in everyone’s lives—in the lives of my children. A healing of sorts continues.”