00:00Okay, these are rapid fire, and we're just rapidly firing through.
00:03Our version of rapid fire.
00:04Well, let me tell you.
00:05Blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:07Hi, I'm Anne Hathaway.
00:08And I'm Ewan McGregor.
00:09And we are doing the New Yorker mini interview.
00:15Ladies first?
00:15Sure.
00:18Who would you bring with you to a deserted island?
00:21My wife, Mary.
00:23Yeah.
00:23That's gorgeous.
00:24Any of the kids?
00:26No.
00:27Date night.
00:28Date night.
00:28Date island.
00:30What is a piece of advice that you would give your younger self?
00:34Chill out.
00:39Brilliant.
00:40Okay, mine to you is, if you were a dinosaur, which dinosaur would you be?
00:45I'd be that big, huge, big, long-necked, vegetarian one.
00:49We used to call it a diplodocus when I was at school, but I don't know what it's called.
00:52Let's just say they still do.
00:53Diplodocus.
00:55What is a movie that everyone should watch?
00:58Gosh.
00:59Oh.
01:00You know, I did just recently watch My Best Friend's Wedding.
01:03Oh, yeah.
01:04This past weekend.
01:05So, I'd say like that and then like 2001 Space Odyssey.
01:08Yes.
01:09Yes.
01:09I'm with you on both of those.
01:10Okay.
01:11So, mine to you is, what is your favorite work of sci-fi?
01:14Interesting.
01:16Well, 2001 Space Odyssey would have to be up there.
01:18Mm-hmm.
01:19And then I was a, you know, I was a die-hard Star Wars film for when I was a
01:23kid.
01:23Mm-hmm.
01:24The first Star Wars film.
01:26Okay.
01:26Episode four.
01:26A New Hope.
01:27I love that you loved that as a kid.
01:29I did, I did.
01:29Like your life, that happened.
01:31I know, it was amazing.
01:31That's amazing.
01:32Where is your favorite place to explore on a motorcycle?
01:37Ooh.
01:38Well, to be very honest, right now, Scotland is my favorite place to explore because I've
01:42moved back there after a long, long time not living there and I want to know it again,
01:47all of it.
01:47So, that would be my answer, but where I've been, I probably, Mongolia is one of the
01:52most extraordinary places I've ever been to.
01:54Yeah.
01:54And it was like life-changing for you.
01:55And life-changing because I met my daughter there.
01:57Yeah, exactly.
01:57Exactly.
01:58Tilda Swinton said she loves to live in Scotland because that's where she knows which way the
02:01grass grows.
02:02Oh, wow.
02:02Isn't that beautiful?
02:03Yeah, that is nice.
02:05What extinct creature would you bring back?
02:09Chivalry?
02:09I mean...
02:12Civility, the democratic process.
02:14You know, I got to play in a movie called Rio, a blue spix macaw.
02:18Yeah.
02:18And after I finished the film, they went extinct.
02:21And so, I showed my kids the film and they asked me if they were still alive and I had
02:24to say no.
02:25So, I'd like to...
02:26Maybe there's a few around that we haven't seen.
02:29You know, sometimes they find out that the species isn't...
02:32I love your optimism.
02:34Let's hope so.
02:34Let's hope so.
02:35What 1980s film do you wish you could have starred in?
02:39Gosh, E.T.
02:40Oh, wow.
02:41Love E.T.
02:42Yeah.
02:42Love it so much.
02:43And I don't know who I would have been.
02:45I wouldn't change a thing about it.
02:46But it's just such beautiful filmmaking.
02:48And the kids are just...
02:49The acting in it is amazing.
02:51Amazing.
02:51What food do you miss most when you're not in Scotland?
02:54Well, the obvious answer is haggis, because you don't really get that anywhere else.
02:58I like haggis.
02:59Okay.
02:59I've never had it, so I don't know why I'm afraid of it.
03:02People are so afraid of it, but I don't know why.
03:04It's nice.
03:05My friends from Scotland talk about also like a deep fried Mars bar.
03:08Yeah.
03:09But your face is saying I don't miss that.
03:10I've never had one.
03:12It became a sort of cultural icon that I don't love the idea that that's what Scotland's
03:17known for, you know, because it's such a shitty thing to do.
03:20I don't know if you know where I'm from, but we deep fry everything.
03:23Well, I never had one.
03:24I think one fell in a deep fryer in a fish and chip shop once and they went, oh, that's
03:29a good idea.
03:30Doritos were invented at Disneyland much the same way.
03:32Oh, is that right?
03:33Yeah.
03:33A tortilla chip fell into like a spice thing that was being used for something else.
03:37Yeah.
03:37And they wound up selling a batch and then they kept selling them and kept selling them
03:41and kept selling them.
03:41I hope I just made something up.
03:43I thought I read that somewhere.
03:44I love that.
03:44Fact check me.
03:45The New Yorker.
03:46New Yorker.
03:48What accomplishment are you most proud of?
03:51Being the dad to my kids.
03:52Yeah.
03:52You've got great kids too.
03:53I've got lovely kids, yeah.
03:54Not just a dad, but a dad to great kids.
03:56Well.
03:57Oh, yeah.
03:59I like to think so.
03:59Oh, you're really proud of me.
04:01You didn't even talk.
04:02Are you good in a crisis?
04:04I'm pretty good in a crisis.
04:06I go very, very practical and very, very calm.
04:09I'd say I think it would be easier if my kids weren't involved.
04:12I think that's when I would probably lose it a little bit.
04:14I really don't freak out until the bitter end.
04:18So I think that I handled the early parts of a crisis pretty well.
04:21Yeah.
04:22I can see that.
04:23What 1980s fad would you like to see return?
04:27No internet.
04:28And no phones and just the freedom to be a child in your childhood without being.
04:34That's what I would like to see.
04:35I love when we would be on set and all of your stories were, you know, from Scotland,
04:39were just, I don't know, they were just gorgeous and they felt like wild and like proper childhood.
04:43Yeah, yeah.
04:43Mine is not about being in the wilderness, but a couple of weekends ago it was rainy and my family
04:48and I went to a mall and we had the best day in the mall.
04:51So I kind of want to see malls come back.
04:53Yeah, yeah.
04:54Here's one.
04:55Okay.
04:55What is the one thing you're working on learning?
04:58I feel like I'm constantly trying to learn Italian, but I'm like just kind of hoping I absorb it by
05:02osmosis.
05:03Yeah.
05:03I'm not really working at it.
05:04Yeah.
05:05And I'm working on learning to make time to learn how to make pasta.
05:09I have a teacher all lined up.
05:11It's my friend Kevin.
05:12He's right over there.
05:12And I keep breaking our appointments for him to come over and teach me how to make pasta.
05:17I'm sorry, Kevin.
05:18Do you have the little, the machine, the pasta?
05:21I will have it.
05:22Kevin has told me the one that I have to get and I haven't, I just haven't gotten it yet.
05:28And no, I'm really, really excited.
05:29I am hoping that I'm going to be someone who can make fresh pasta in my life.
05:33That's a lovely thing to learn to do.
05:35Have we?
05:36I think we've got to the end of my bag.
05:38End of my bag too.
05:39There we are.
05:39We did it.
05:40We did it.
05:40Thank you for having us, New Yorker.
05:43And please everyone see The End of Oak Street, which will be in theaters on August 14th.
05:48God, we're good.
05:49I mean, we are good, aren't we?
05:50Come on.
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