Ewan McGregor, star of the forthcoming limited Ryan Murphy series Halston, has opened up about his experience playing gay characters, and how he prepared for the show’s sex scenes.In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, McGregor, 54, talks about playing a number of gay roles throughout his career, and how the approach to sex scenes has changed.“This was the first thing I’ve ever done where we had an intimacy coordinator,” McGregor said of the series.
It was such a relief. It’s about f*cking time. The temptation in my experience is just for the director to go, ‘Just do whatever.’ It’s embarrassing.
That’s not fair on either actor to do that.”He would know. Early in his career, McGregor played queer roles in a number of films.