SCOTS star Ewan McGregor has said he is “very touched” after being awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The 53-year-old, who has stared in classics like Trainspotting and as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, was inducted into the famous street this week.
The actor said: “I just want to thank everybody, all of you, for coming today.
“I absolutely had no idea what it would feel like, or what it would mean, but it is meaning a great deal, and it feels very, very nice and I feel very touched by the whole thing.
“I’m so moved that I’m close to my old friend Carrie Fisher, on the pavement here, that means a great deal to me.”
Carrie Fisher starred in the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as the three films made by Disney.
Mike Mills, director, said his crew “couldn’t wait for (Ewan) to turn up in the morning” when he was working alongside the actor on 2010 comedy drama Beginners, and added that McGregor was able to make himself “vulnerable” and “go to such an authentic place”.
Hayden Christensen, who starred with in the Star Wars prequel trilogy with McGregor, said the Scot was “the coolest man on the planet” and described him as a “brother”.
He added: “I often think about the first time that I met you, and we were both in Australia, many moons ago, getting ready to do Star Wars episode two.
“I was at the studio where we were going to be filming, and the producer was taking me around, showing me some things, and then he was going to go take me to meet Ewan for the first time.
“And I was so excited, I was already such a huge fan of his, and so I walk into this room where I’m told Ewan is going to be and before I can even put eyes on him, I hear his voice, and he exclaims my name with with more enthusiasm than I think I’d ever heard it spoken with before.
“I turn and see him, and then he’s coming at me, and he comes and just gives me the biggest hug, like just the most disarmingly warm embrace, and we start chatting, and he’s just the nicest person.
“He’s telling me how excited he is to be working together and how much fun we’re going to have doing our lightsaber training, and he’s just beyond kind to me.
“It was immediately apparent to me that I was meeting someone truly special, and not just as an actor, but as a person, and that I was meeting a friend.”
McGregor’s star has become the 2789th on the walk and is located outside the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.
