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Ewan McGregor opened up in a recent Radio Times cover story about his experience working with his wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead on “A Gentleman in Moscow.”
Notably, McGregor revealed that he and Winstead had an intimacy coordinator on set while filming sex scenes for the new drama series.
“It’s still necessary, because it’s also about the team,” McGregor said. “And it’s strange to be naked in front of people, it’s strange to be intimate in front of the camera.”
“If you were doing a dance scene, you would have a choreographer,” he added. “He’s an important part of the job now, because he’s someone the director and the actors meet in the middle.”
For McGregor, it’s also crucial that productions hire intimacy coordinators because in the past, a young actor, similar in age to his 22-year-old daughter Esther, may have felt pressured to perform in “unnecessary” scenes.
“My daughter is 22. If a famous, older director walks up to a 22-year-old and says, ‘I want you to be naked in this scene,’ that actress might feel, ‘Oh my God, I have to do this, my career.’ it might depend on it,'” McGregor said. “And then five years after that, he was able to look back and say, ‘I wish I hadn’t done that.’ Why am I naked in that scene? It’s unnecessary.'”
McGregor plays Count Alexander Rostov in “A Gentleman in Moscow,” while Winstead plays Anna Urbanova, described as “a glamorous, independent, self-made film actress at the peak of her fame.”
According to the official logline, the series “follows Count Alexander Rostov (McGregor) who, after the Russian Revolution, discovers that his golden past places him on the wrong side of history. Saved from immediate execution, he is banished by a Soviet court to an attic room in the opulent Metropol Hotel, threatened with death if he ever sets foot outside again. As the years pass and some of the most tumultuous decades of Russian history unfold outside the hotel’s doors, Rostov’s reduced circumstances provide him with entry into a much wider world of emotional discovery. As he builds a new life within the hotel walls, he discovers the true value of friendship, family and love.”
“A Gentleman in Moscow” premieres March 29 on Paramount+ with Showtime.