Obi-wan has dreams, too

Ewan McGregor related some of his bad dreams in a 2003 interview with Adam Higginbotham for The Observer.

He also put to rest false rumors and talked about his past drinking binges, why he did Star Wars and other films, and the worst haircut he ever had. It's a great interview. Here’s an excerpt about his dreams:

Do you ever dream in character?

'No. Ha ha. Never. I dream a lot... Actors - most of them - have work-related dreams. When I've been involved in really hard shoots - six days a week and full-on hours - then very often there's a kind of half-awake, half-asleep thing where the crew are all in your bedroom, standing around, filming you in the bed, asking you to move around. I've experienced this, where I've been moving over in my bed to be in the right position. And you're like, "Wait a minute, I'm in bed, you should all... this is my time, surely? You shouldn't be filming me in my fucking bed!" And then they all disappear.'

McGregor has this dream a lot. It's usually just from fatigue, exhaustion. 'Months of people telling you where to put your fucking arms and legs.' The other one he has is where he's backstage in a theatre, about to go on to perform in a play - only he doesn't know what the play is, or any of the lines. The director of the play changes, depending on who he's working with - when he was making Moulin Rouge, it was Baz Luhrmann; earlier this year, shooting Big Fish in Alabama, it was Tim Burton.

But, often, it's about the play his uncle Denis directed him in, back in 1998: Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs. 'I couldn't remember a line of Little Malcolm now. But I'll dream I've got to go on and do it in, like, 10 minutes. And then it becomes about finding the script. And you know if you find the script, somehow you'll be all right. You'll be able to go on there and pull it off. So you're running round backstage: "Has anyone seen my script?" And somebody maybe saw it over there - and you go there and it's gone... and suddenly you've got to go on. And usually then you wake up in a cold sweat... but it's a real panic. They're horrible dreams.'

Have you ever found the script?

'No. I've never found the script. No.'

Read the whole interview here.


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