Actor Ewan McGregor ‘very touched’ as he gets Hollywood Walk of Fame star

The 53-year-old was inducted into the well-known road with a speech from Hayden Christensen, 43, who he starred with within the Star Wars prequel trilogy as Obi-Wan Kenobi, with the Anakin Skywalker actor praising him as “the most effective Jedi grasp anybody might’ve requested for”.

Director Mike Mills, 58, additionally gave a speech, saying his crew “couldn’t look forward to him to show up within the morning” when he was working alongside the actor on 2010 comedy drama Newbies, and added that McGregor was capable of make himself “weak” and “go to such an genuine place”.

Receiving the honour, McGregor stated he was significantly happy that his star could be subsequent to that of his late good friend Carrie Fisher, who starred within the unique Star Wars trilogy, in addition to the three movies made by Disney.

The Scottish actor stated: “Oh, goodness me, it’s unimaginable to comply with these two intros, however I’ll strive my highest.

“I simply wish to thank all people, all of you, for coming at the moment.

“I completely had no thought what it will really feel like, or what it will imply, however it’s that means an important deal, and it feels very, very good and I really feel very touched by the entire thing.

“I’m so moved that I’m near my previous good friend Carrie Fisher, on the pavement right here, meaning an important deal to me.”

Talking about McGregor, Christensen stated he was “the good man on the planet” and described him as a “brother”.

He stated: “I typically take into consideration the primary time that I met you, and we have been each in Australia, many moons in the past, on the point of do Star Wars episode two.

“I used to be on the studio the place we have been going to be filming, and the producer was taking me round, exhibiting me some issues, after which he was going to go take me to fulfill Ewan for the primary time.

“And I used to be so excited, I used to be already such an enormous fan of his, and so I stroll into this room the place I’m advised Ewan goes to be and earlier than I may even put eyes on him, I hear his voice, and he exclaims my title with with extra enthusiasm than I feel I’d ever heard it spoken with earlier than.

“I flip and see him, after which he’s coming at me, and he comes and simply offers me the most important hug, like simply essentially the most disarmingly heat embrace, and we begin chatting, and he’s simply the nicest particular person.

“He’s telling me how excited he’s to be working collectively and the way a lot enjoyable we’re going to have doing our lightsaber coaching, and he’s simply past type to me.

“It was instantly obvious to me that I used to be assembly somebody actually particular, and never simply as an actor, however as an individual, and that I used to be assembly a good friend.”

McGregor’s star has grow to be the two,789th on the stroll and is situated exterior the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard after it was unveiled yesterday.

The actor achieved stardom taking part in Renton in 1996’s Trainspotting, earlier than taking part in Obi-Wan within the Star Wars prequel trilogy and the 2022 Disney+ spin-off collection concerning the character.

He has additionally starred in Fargo, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen and Moulin Rouge!.

McGregor was made an OBE in 2013 for companies to drama and charity and has received an Emmy Award and one Golden Globe.