Beginners premiere: Melanie Laurent, Christopher Plummer, Ewan McGregor
Christopher Plummer reads a message from Ewan McGregor at the premiere of "Beginners" at TIFF
- Christopher calls Ewan a "poor baby"
- Ewan proud to play Christopher's son
- Ewan says it was easy to fall head over heels for Melanie and that he loves and misses her
Christopher Plummer's skinny-jeans thing
Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor had never worked together before they filmed Beginners, in which they play a father and son. So some bonding time before filming was crucial.
In Mike Mills’s film, which has its world premiere at TIFF on Saturday night, Oliver (McGregor) has to come to terms with his terminally ill, 70-something-year-old father (Plummer) coming out of the closet and taking up with a new boyfriend. Plummer’s character is looking to reinvent himself late in life and enjoy moving and shaking among a young, trendy gay crowd.
So to set the tone and breed familiarity, Mills tried a slightly unorthodox approach.
“We spent a week doing all these experiential things to kind of get them into being those people. So the first thing I had them do was go to [New York luxury department store] Barney’s with some money and have Ewan help Christopher buy something that was too young, in a way,” Mills says on the phone from Los Angeles. “And they came back pretty bonded. It took, like, an hour.”
What did they find for the octogenarian Plummer?
“Skinny jeans. Christopher got very addicted to skinny jeans,” Mills says. “And they look great on him.”
The film is based on the director's own father who came out at age 75
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Click to view- Christopher calls Ewan a "poor baby"
- Ewan proud to play Christopher's son
- Ewan says it was easy to fall head over heels for Melanie and that he loves and misses her
Christopher Plummer's skinny-jeans thing
Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor had never worked together before they filmed Beginners, in which they play a father and son. So some bonding time before filming was crucial.
In Mike Mills’s film, which has its world premiere at TIFF on Saturday night, Oliver (McGregor) has to come to terms with his terminally ill, 70-something-year-old father (Plummer) coming out of the closet and taking up with a new boyfriend. Plummer’s character is looking to reinvent himself late in life and enjoy moving and shaking among a young, trendy gay crowd.
So to set the tone and breed familiarity, Mills tried a slightly unorthodox approach.
“We spent a week doing all these experiential things to kind of get them into being those people. So the first thing I had them do was go to [New York luxury department store] Barney’s with some money and have Ewan help Christopher buy something that was too young, in a way,” Mills says on the phone from Los Angeles. “And they came back pretty bonded. It took, like, an hour.”
What did they find for the octogenarian Plummer?
“Skinny jeans. Christopher got very addicted to skinny jeans,” Mills says. “And they look great on him.”
The film is based on the director's own father who came out at age 75
Source 1,2,3,4