Ewan McGregor has emotionally opened up about having his Hollywood Stroll of Fame star subsequent to fellow Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher’s plaque.
McGregor, 53, who has performed Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi for 25 years in movies and TV, acquired his star on Thursday together with his kids and spouse Mary Elizabeth Winstead in attendance.
Fisher – who’s greatest identified for her portrayal of Princess Leia within the franchise, acquired a star posthumously in 2023 – seven years after her loss of life aged 60.
He instructed Folks: ‘Meaning the world to me. I used to be so fortunate to get to know Carrie’, including he was ‘so in love together with her as a boy’ when he watched the unique Star Wars movies.
‘I sat down together with her on this seaside and I felt like we simply clicked and she or he made me chuckle, she actually made me chuckle, after which we did a couple of issues right here in Hollywood. We cohosted some fundraisers at her home…
Ewan McGregor has emotionally opened up about having his Hollywood Stroll of Fame star subsequent to fellow Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher’s plaque
Fisher – who’s greatest identified for her portrayal of Princess Leia within the franchise, acquired a star posthumously in 2023 – seven years after her loss of life aged 60 – pictured 1977
‘Anyway, we have been cohosts and she or he simply made me weep with laughter and she or he was extremely humorous. I miss her loads, I all the time neglect that she’s not with us. So anyway, the truth that we’re shut collectively is de facto pretty.’
McGregor’s fellow Star Wars actors Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Harrison Ford (Han Solo) even have stars situated on the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard.
McGregor instructed the viewers at his ceremony: ‘I might completely no concept what it might really feel like or what it might imply, nevertheless it means an awesome deal and it feels very very good and I really feel very touched by the entire thing.
‘I am so moved that I am near my outdated pal Carrie Fisher on the pavement right here, meaning an awesome deal to me, too.’
Fisher died In December 2016, on the age of 60, 4 days after struggling a coronary heart assault on a flight from London to Los Angeles,
Born into Hollywood royalty, because the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, Fisher would observe within the footsteps of her well-known mother and father and make her movie debut in Shampoo (1975).
Her function as Princess Leia in Star Wars (1977) and the sequel The Empire Strikes Again (1980) have been simply the second and third movies of her profession.
The third of the the unique sequence of movies Return of the Jedi (1983) would come simply three years later.
McGregor first performed Obi-Wan within the three prequel Star Struggle movies from George Lucas that additionally included Hayden Christiansen
She went on to star in quite a few well-liked films that features The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and When Harry Met Sally (1989).
Her tv credit included Laverne and Shirley, Intercourse and the Metropolis, 30 Rock, and Household Man, for which she served because the voice of Angela from 2005-2017.
She would reprise her function as Princess Leia within the sequel trilogy in Star Wars: The Drive Awakens (2015), after which seem posthumously in Star Wars: The Final Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) by way of the usage of archive video.
Alongside together with her appearing credit, Fisher additionally had a profitable writing profession, publishing three novels and two memoirs, together with Postcards From The Edge, a semi- autobiographical novel that garnered her the Los Angeles Pen Award for Finest First Novel.
The Los Angeles native would go on to jot down the screenplay for movie model of Postcards From The Edge (1990) that starred Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine and Dennis Quaid, that earned Streep an Academy Award nomination for Finest Actress.
McGregor’s fellow Star Wars actors Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Harrison Ford (Han Solo) even have stars situated on the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard
McGregor was joined by Christensen at his ceremony on Thursday
Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd accepted the respect on her behalf in Might 2023 – seen with Mark Hamill
Fisher was on a business flight on December 23, 2016, heading again to Los Angeles after working within the UK when she had a medical emergency round quarter-hour earlier than the plane landed.
After 4 days within the intensive care unit (ICU) on the UCLA Medical Middle, Fisher handed away on the age of 60.
Sadly, her mom handed away from a stroke on the age of 84 simply in the future later.
