“I kind of became my grandfather, Laurie Lawson,” the actor said in an interview
His most recent role Ewan McGregor tbeing goes back in time. Almost unrecognizable with a huge mustache and curly hair, he stars in the new series “A Gentleman in Moscow” as Count Alexander Rostov. The television production is set in Moscow in 1921, four years after the Russian Revolution, and shows the country’s aristocracy facing summary trials and executions.
But Rostov – known as Sasha to his friends – escapes death because he wrote a poem in which the revolutionaries found inspiration.
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In his statements on a BBC Scotland show referring to his transformation, the actor emphasized: “It was all my own mustache and I had a perm – I wanted to have crazy curly hair.”
Ewan McGregor said that as the character he plays grows older, the hair recedes and the mustache narrows. “I kind of became my grandfather, Laurie Lawson,” he said.
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Lawrence Lawson was a jeweler in McGregor’s hometown of Crieff in Perthshire. He moved there after learning his trade in Glasgow and at one point was in charge of making sure the city clock showed the correct time. People in Crieff will remember him,” McGregor said.
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“Towards the end of filming, when I was older as the earl, I would look in the mirror and really feel like him” he emphasized.
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