Podcast: SmartLess
Episode: Ewan McGregor on almost rejecting Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge | SmartLess
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Jupiter's Travels
Buy on Amazon"Then I read this book written by Ted Simon, who wrote a beautiful book called Jupiter's Travels in the 70s. He was a journalist, I think, for The Sunday Times, and he decided he wanted to travel the world."
Trainspotting
Buy on Amazon"And, but John, I think of Ryan said John didn't think I was right for it because in the novel in Irvine Welsh's novel, you and Bremner who played Spud had played Renton on the stage version before we made it. It was a play! Trainspotting was a play; it was a novel first, and then they made a play of it!"