Ewan McGregor opens up on kissing Jim Carrey
FILM HUNK REVEALS MISSUS WAS INTRIGUED BY SMACKER
HOLLYWOOD hunk Ewan McGregor has confessed that his missus was never interested in his sex scenes - until he snogged a MAN.
The Trainspotting favourite plays a gay prisoner having an affair with comedy actor Jim Carrey in his new flick I Love You Phillip Morris.
And though his wife Eve Mavrakis, below, has never asked about steamy scenes with sexy starlets, she demanded to know if the Liar Liar star was a good kisser.
Ewan, 38, said last night: "She was more interested in sex scenes with Jim than she ever has been in the ones with any young actresses.
"She wanted to know what it was like, so I told her that Jim is a very good kisser - which he is. He didn't make any of his funny faces.
"I'm really looking forward to the film coming out. I mean, who wouldn't want to see me kissing Jim Carrey? I would!"
Inspired by a true story, I Love You Phillip Morris is a comedy drama featuring Jim, 47, as an ex-cop with two kids who has a car accident and reveals he's gay.
To keep up his new high-living lifestyle, he becomes a conman who ends up in a Texas prison.
There, he falls in love with his cellmate Phillip Morris, played by Ewan, who is inside for not returning a rental car.
The Star Wars icon, from Crieff, Perthshire - who earned a whopping £15million last year - added: "I've played gay characters before so I've kissed men in the past.
"We did all of the kissing on our first day of filming, we had scenes where we kissed and held each other. It was getting on with it, right from the word go.
"It didn't feel a big deal because my character's situation is that he's in love with Jim's character.
"I'm playing a man who is in love. As an actor, you are in there. So to be kissing the man you love isn't strange or unusual."
While I Love You Phillip Morris is yet to get a UK release date, Ewan's current film Angels & Demons has been a global box office smash.
In the adaptation of Dan Brown's hit novel, he plays Camerlengo Patrick McKenna, who weaves a plot that nearly destroys the Vatican.
But Ewan was disappointed that he didn't get to film in Rome. He said: "During the film I spend most of my time indoors so I didn't get to film there at all. It was a shame because I've wanted to work in Rome forever - I thought this was going to be the moment. But most of my stuff was filmed in LA."
But it was a dream come true to work for director Ron Howard, 55, who played Richie Cunningham in 1970s US comedy Happy Days.
He laughed: "I'd met Ron three or four times in a restaurant in Piccadilly in London, that I go to with my family on Sundays, which I think led to me being offered the role. I like Ron a lot - he's great to work for. He's an actor so he knows how to get the best out of us.
"He's just such a genuine and sweet man. I would always chat with him between takes.
"The greatest mark about a director is how much you'd like to hang out with him."
His biggest thrill was when Henry Winkler, 63, visited the set.
He said: "You had Richie Cunningham and The Fonz walking around together - all the crew had stopped working to look at the two of them. It was so funny."
Ewan moved 42-year-old film set designer Eve and their three young daughters from London to their home in LA's swanky Venice Beach last year.
The actor said: "I've had a house in LA for quite a while, so I decided to go live in it. It's great but I just need to stop working for a while and actually spend some time at home.
"I've been working in Berlin for the last three months, so I'm looking forward to now spending a bit of time in the house. I like the positiveness of America - and I don't miss the British attitude.
"I'm always on the move. Wherever Eve and the kids are is home.
"When you're far away from home it's awful not to be with them.
"You just worry yourself to death. I fancied a change. I had just had enough of London."
However, Ewan insisted his heart belongs in Crieff, where his retired teacher parents Carol and James still live.
He said: "It is so much a part of who I am. My family love going there, so I visit a lot."
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