PIERS MORGAN: On pedophile-loving hypocrite Ewan McGregor

I used to be purported to interview the actor Ewan McGregor as we speak.

We've met just a few instances. As soon as at Soho Home in Los Angeles with our households, one other time as we disembarked a airplane, additionally in LA, and walked collectively for 15 minutes to passport management.

On each events he was pleasant and charming. We talked about life, children, films. I preferred him quite a bit.

So I used to be trying ahead to seeing him once more.

Sadly, it turned out he wasn't fairly so eager on seeing me once more.

McGregor arrived with a big Hollywood-style entourage on the ITV studios in London, the place I presently co-host Good Morning Britain.

McGregor, seen right here as we speak, arrived at my tv studios together with his massive entourage, earlier than arguing within the inexperienced room over me

I checked Twitter within the subsequent industrial break, realizing there was an issue, and found the 'problem'

They have been all escorted to the inexperienced room, the place an argument then began with our editorial workforce as a result of McGregor apparently hadn't realized I used to be going to be concerned with the interview.

He refused level clean to do it until I used to be eliminated and it was carried out by my co-host Susanna Reid.

This demand was denied, as have been additional calls for for the interview to be severely shortened and to be restricted purely to speak about his new film, T2 Trainspotting.

So, enraged that he couldn't do the interview on the phrases he wished, McGregor left.

Within the studio itself, we have been warned there could also be a slight 'problem' with McGregor showing on the couch, 5 minutes earlier than he was due on.

I checked Twitter within the subsequent industrial break and found the 'problem':

'Was occurring Good Morning Britain,' McGregor had tweeted, 'didn't realise @piersmorgan was host. Gained't go on with him after his feedback about #WomensMarch.'

Wow.

Let that tweet sink in for just a few seconds.

An actor who had contractually agreed to look on a TV present to advertise his new movie pulls out on the final minute as a result of he doesn't just like the political opinion of one of many presenters.

First, there's a surprisingly unprofessional side to this. The hard-working GMB workforce had spent a number of days producing the phase. This stuff simply don't pop up on display.

The interview had additionally been extensively trailed since yesterday so our viewers have been additionally let down. They embody lots of the identical individuals who pay good cash to see McGregor's films.

He stated he'd do it provided that my cohost Susanna Reid did it alone, with out me - regardless of the actual fact it has been teased for days and lots of people had put lots of work into producing the phase

Then there's the political side.

Ewan McGregor is a really indignant man in terms of his politics.

A flick via his Twitter feed as we speak revealed a person completely enraged by each Donald Trump's ascent to the presidency, and by Britain's determination to depart the European Union.

His fury on the latter could strike some as barely disingenuous on condition that McGregor himself stop the EU years in the past to go and dwell the lifetime of a pampered millionaire film star in Hollywood. However I'll go away others to determine whether or not that's hypocritical or not.

One factor's for certain: Ewan McGregor needs you all to know, very very loudly, that he HATES TRUMP AND BREXIT.

What democracy doesn't entitle him to do is ban or punish others if their political views occur to vary from his. That's the behaviour reserved for dictators like Kim Jong Un in North Korea.

That's superb. Practically half of those that voted within the US election and EU referendum didn't agree both. However each outcomes got here after free, truthful elections. It's referred to as democracy.

After all, that very same democracy means Ewan McGregor's completely entitled to have an opinion.

Sadly, what democracy doesn't entitle him to do is ban or punish others if their political views occur to vary from his.

That's the conduct reserved for dictators like Kim Jong Un in North Korea. (Towards whom there was no world march, mockingly, regardless of his disgusting oppression of girls.)

My argument towards the Girls's March, as I wrote yesterday, was not that ladies shouldn't be allowed to march. That's everyone's proper in a democratic society.

It was that it appeared to serve no actual goal aside from creating an outlet for ladies to vent their wrath on the truth Trump beat Hillary Clinton, thus stopping her changing into the primary feminine president.

The audio system mirrored this fury. Foul-mouthed Madonna, who had beforehand supplied 'free blowjobs' to anybody who voted for her buddy Hillary, talked of occupied with blowing up the White Home; Ashley Judd learn merciless incest jokes towards his daughter Ivanka Trump; and lots of the indicators carried by protestors have been as crude and offensive as they deem the brand new President to be.

This wasn't a 'celebration of affection', because the organizers claimed, nor even a cry for gender equality. It was a political rally that wished to indicate the world girls hate Donald Trump.

Effectively, I don't hate him. He's an excellent buddy of mine. I wouldn't have voted for him even when I might as a result of I don't agree with a lot of his political beliefs from weapons to local weather change. Nor do I defend his extra offensive feedback about girls or Muslims.

I do not hate Trump - he's an excellent buddy of mine, although I wouldn't have voted for him. I do not defend his extra offensive feedback about girls or Muslims. However I do assume he may transform an efficient president. How bizarre it should be to solely communicate to individuals who agree with you?

However I do assume he may transform a surprisingly efficient president, and as NFL celebrity Tom Brady, one other buddy of Trump's who has additionally been criticized for not disowning him, stated yesterday: 'It's only a friendship. Why the large deal? He's been excellent to me for a very long time. If you understand somebody (as a buddy) it doesn't imply you agree with all the things they are saying or do.'

Precisely.

I've many family and friends members with whom I disagree about politics.

How bizarre it should be to solely communicate to individuals who agree with you?

As quickly as McGregor posted his tweet this morning, social media erupted. The luvvie lemmings, naturally, all raced to supply him their help. However many different individuals didn't, and questioned why if he felt this strongly he didn't argue the difficulty with me on air relatively than working away?

Sadly, that's not the way in which many entertainers behave any extra.

They management all the things they do via small armies of sycophantic managers, attorneys and publicists, and like to make political statements that stay unchallenged.

This was typified by Meryl Streep's terribly pompous and elitist anti-Trump speech on the current Golden Globes.

As we speak's announcement of the Oscars nominations merely served to remind us of final yr's Academy Awards, when just about each winner turned their acceptance speech into some sort of political tirade.

I dread to assume what is going to occur this yr now that Donald Trump is President. However I'd stake a big guess Hollywood stars will compete to see who can savage Trump within the worst doable method.

My argument towards the Girls's March was that it appeared to serve no actual goal aside from creating an outlet for ladies like foul-mouthed Madonna to vent their wrath. Celebrities want to make political statements that stay unchallenged - typified by Meryl Streep's speech on the Golden Globes. I hate to assume how Oscar speeches will go

They assume that by doing this they make themselves massively well-liked, simply as British stars assume they do by attacking Brexit and people who campaigned and voted for it.

But in actuality, all they do is anger and upset half their viewers who don't agree with them.

I hesitate to provide these celebrities any recommendation as a result of most of them are too pampered, cossetted and smug to need to hear it.

But it surely's price remembering the phrases of Elvis Presley, who was an even bigger celebrity than all of them put collectively.

'I need to stay apolitical,' he stated, 'as a result of I don't assume it's proper for me to make use of my superstar and fame to influence different individuals to assume like me. I believe everyone ought to make their very own selections about how they vote.'

There's a cause he was referred to as The King.

His topics liked him for his music and performing, not for his capacity to pressure followers to share his politics too.

Ewan McGregor had his enjoyable with me as we speak and gained loads of publicity for his film within the course of, which can nicely have been his essential motivation all alongside.

He'll be feted for the furore in Hollywood, the place to criticize one thing just like the Girls's March is deemed a criminal offense punishable by public stoning. (Speaking of which, when's the march towards Saudi Arabia's therapy of girls, which is 1000 instances worse than Donald Trump's?)

However by refusing to be interviewed by me just because I've a distinct opinion a couple of political march, McGregor revealed himself to be a narrow-minded, stupendously self-aggrandising, anti-democratic little twerp.

Maybe everybody who voted Trump or Brexit ought to now boycott his films?

In spite of everything, judging by the way in which he boycotted me this morning, that's precisely what vainglorious Ewan would do to them if he have been of their footwear.

Lastly, Ewan McGregor would be the toast of each lady who marched on Saturday, for standing up for ladies's rights.

Buddies: Had we achieved the interview, I might need requested the daddy of 4 women how his heroic help for ladies justified him working for Roman Polanski, a self-confessed and convicted baby abuser, on the movie, The Ghostwriter

Had we achieved the interview, I might need requested him how his heroic help for ladies justified him working for director Roman Polanski, a self-confessed and convicted baby abuser, on the movie, The Ghostwriter.

Polanksi pleaded responsible to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old woman, then fled America to flee a prolonged jail sentence.

'He's a legendary filmmaker, among the best,' gushed McGregor in a 2010 interview in regards to the pedophile, for whom Meryl Streep as soon as gave a standing ovation on the Oscars.

A brand new warrant was issued for Polanski's arrest throughout the film's post-production stage. 

McGregor, who has 4 younger daughters, was requested about it and stated: 'I felt unhappy for Roman as a result of he's an outdated man who I'm extremely keen on. I like him as a person.'   

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