McGregor’s ‘porn star instance with Woody Allen’

Ewan McGregor has recalled a strange “porn star” moment he shared with Woody Allen.

The 43-year-old Mortdecai actor was speaking with the iconic director about business one day.

But then the discussion took an awkward turn out of nowhere.

“And suddenly there was a lull in the conversation. I looked over and there was a wee old lady standing next to what looked like a porn star—this girl with peroxided hair, massive t*ts, mini skirt, big plastic shoes. They were both stopped. They didn’t know if they should walk all over the equipment,” Ewan recalled in the February/March 2015 issue of Nylon Guys magazine. “I hear Woody saying, ‘No, bring your daughter through. Bring your daughter through.’ We both had a little ogle at the girl as she went by. It clearly wasn’t the old lady’s daughter. Anyway, Woody turned to me and rubbed his hands together and went, ‘Well, life could be worse’.”

Ewan has been rubbing shoulders with Hollywood hotshots for decades now, as his career took off in the 1990s.

He was living in London at the time and the star recalls the town hosting quite a lively party scene.

“Jonny [Lee Miller] and Angelina [Jolie] were shooting Hackers, Jude [Law] had done Shopping. I’d done Shallow Grave. We were all kicking off. It was happening,” Ewan shared. “We were having a right laugh. It’s the ’90s in London. It was quite fun… That’s all you’re getting.”

Ewan’s 1996 movie Trainspotting was a huge hit.

And he is hopeful a sequel will be in the works.

“I haven’t seen a script or anything. But it seemed to be quite real,” Ewan said. “I spoke to Danny [Boyle] about it. I met him randomly in a restaurant [last year] before he went up to Scotland to sit with our writer John Hodge and Andrew Macdonald, the producer.”