WEBVTT 00:00:00.079 --> 00:00:05.328 OK, these are rapid fire, and we're just rapidly firing our version of rapid fire. Well, 00:00:05.408 --> 00:00:10.970 let me tell you. Hi, I'm Anne Hathaway and I'm Ewan McGregor, and we are doing the New Yorker 00:00:10.970 --> 00:00:17.170 mini interview. Ladies first. Sure, thank you. 00:00:18.870 --> 00:00:24.478 Who would you bring with you to a deserted island? And my wife Mary. OK. I mean that's, 00:00:24.489 --> 00:00:30.829 that's a no brainer. Any of the kids? No. Uh, date night, date night, date island. What is a 00:00:30.829 --> 00:00:35.959 piece of advice that you would give your younger self? Chill out. 00:00:39.259 --> 00:00:46.109 Brilliant. Oh, OK, mine to you is if you were a dinosaur, which dinosaur would you be? I'd be 00:00:46.109 --> 00:00:51.548 that big, huge, big long necked vegetarian one . We used to call it a Diplodocus when I was at 00:00:51.548 --> 00:00:55.490 school, but I don't know what it's called. Let's just say they still do. Diplodocus. What 00:00:55.490 --> 00:01:02.130 is a movie that everyone should watch? Gosh, oh, you know, I did just recently 00:01:02.130 --> 00:01:07.049 watch uh My Best Friend's Wedding. Oh yeah, uh , this past weekend, so I'd say like that and 00:01:07.049 --> 00:01:12.349 then like 2001 A Space Odyssey. Yes, I'm with you on both of those. OK, so mine to you is, 00:01:12.769 --> 00:01:17.808 what is your favorite work of sci-fi? Interesting. Well, 2001 A Space Odyssey would 00:01:17.808 --> 00:01:23.109 have to be up there. And then I was a, you know, I was a diehard Star Wars film for when I 00:01:23.109 --> 00:01:28.689 was a kid. Uh, the first Star Wars film. Episode 4, A New Hope. I love that you loved 00:01:28.689 --> 00:01:34.329 that as a kid and that happened. I know it was amazing. It's amazing. Where is your favorite 00:01:34.329 --> 00:01:41.260 place to explore on a motorcycle? Oh, well, I, to be very honest, right now Scotland is my 00:01:41.260 --> 00:01:44.989 favorite place to explore because I've moved back there after a long, long time not living 00:01:44.989 --> 00:01:49.849 there and I want to know it again, all of it. So that would be my answer. But where I've been, 00:01:50.269 --> 00:01:54.519 I probably, Mongolia is one of the most extraordinary places I've ever been. And it was 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:58.909 like life changing and life changing because I met my daughter there. Yeah. Tilda Swinton said 00:01:58.909 --> 00:02:02.209 she loves to live in Scotland because that's where she knows which way the grass grows. Oh 00:02:02.209 --> 00:02:07.269 wow, Isn't that beautiful? Yeah, that is nice. Yeah. What extinct creature would you bring 00:02:07.269 --> 00:02:14.250 back? Chivalry, I mean. Civility, um, the democratic process, 00:02:14.330 --> 00:02:19.969 you know, I got to play in a movie called Rio, a Blue Spi macaw. And after I finished the film 00:02:19.969 --> 00:02:23.969 they went extinct. And so I showed my kids the film and they asked me if they were still alive 00:02:23.969 --> 00:02:29.770 and I had to say no. So I'd like to. Maybe there's a few around that we haven't seen. You 00:02:29.770 --> 00:02:36.169 know, sometimes they find out that that isn't. I love your optimism. Let's hope so. What 1980s 00:02:36.169 --> 00:02:43.028 film do you wish you could have starred in? Gosh, ET. Oh wow. Love ET love it 00:02:43.028 --> 00:02:46.819 so much and I don't know who I would have been . I wouldn't change a thing about it, but it's 00:02:46.819 --> 00:02:51.379 just such beautiful filmmaking and the kids are just the acting and it is amazing. What 00:02:51.379 --> 00:02:55.960 food do you miss most when you're not in Scotland? Well, the obvious answer is haggis 00:02:55.960 --> 00:03:00.574 because you don't really get that anywhere else. Yeah, I like haggis. OK, yeah. I had it, 00:03:00.625 --> 00:03:03.694 so I, I, I don't know why I'm afraid of it. People are so afraid of it, but I don't know 00:03:03.694 --> 00:03:08.335 why. It's, it's nice. My friends from Scotland talk about also like a deep fried Mars bar. 00:03:08.544 --> 00:03:12.824 Yeah, but, but your face is saying I don't miss that. I've never had one. It became a sort 00:03:12.824 --> 00:03:18.183 of cultural icon that I don't love the idea that that's what Scotland's known for, you know, 00:03:18.383 --> 00:03:23.569 because it's such a shitty thing. I don't know if you know where I'm from. But uh we deep fry 00:03:23.569 --> 00:03:27.939 everything. Well, I never had one. I think one fell in a deep fat fryer in a fish and chip 00:03:27.939 --> 00:03:32.058 shop once and they went, oh, that's a good idea. Doritos were invented at Disneyland much 00:03:32.058 --> 00:03:36.300 the same way. Oh, is that right? Yeah, a tortilla chip fell into like a spice thing that 00:03:36.300 --> 00:03:40.099 was being used for something else and they wound up selling a batch and then they kept 00:03:40.099 --> 00:03:42.889 selling them and kept selling them and kept selling them. I I'm just like made something up. 00:03:42.899 --> 00:03:49.080 I thought I read that somewhere. I love that. Fact check me, The New Yorkerer. What 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:53.659 accomplishment are you most proud of? Being the dad to my kids. Yeah, you've got great kids 00:03:53.659 --> 00:04:00.520 too. Not just a dad, but a dad to great kids. Well, oh yeah, I, I like. Oh, you're really 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:06.868 proud of me. You can't even talk. Are you good in a crisis? I'm pretty good in a crisis. I go 00:04:06.868 --> 00:04:11.909 very, very practical and very, very calm. I'd say I think it would be easier if my kids 00:04:11.909 --> 00:04:15.558 weren't involved. I think that's when I would probably lose it a little bit. I really don't 00:04:15.558 --> 00:04:21.028 freak out until the bitter end. So I think that I handled the early parts of a crisis 00:04:21.028 --> 00:04:27.850 pretty well. Yeah, I, I can see that. What 1980s fad would you like to see return? No 00:04:27.850 --> 00:04:34.009 internet and no phones and just the freedom to be a child in your childhood without being, 00:04:34.569 --> 00:04:37.949 that's what I would like to. I love when we, we would be on set and all of your stories were, 00:04:38.119 --> 00:04:40.720 you know, from Scotland, we're just, I don't know, they're just gorgeous and that they felt 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:45.369 like wild and like, like proper childhood. Yeah. Mine is not about being in the wilderness, 00:04:45.449 --> 00:04:50.678 but a couple of weekends ago it was rainy and my family and I. To a mall and we had the best 00:04:50.678 --> 00:04:55.298 day in the mall, so I kind of want to see malls come back. Yeah, yeah. Here's one. OK. 00:04:55.509 --> 00:05:00.119 What is the one thing you're working on learning? I feel like I'm constantly trying to 00:05:00.119 --> 00:05:04.079 learn Italian, but I'm like just kind of hoping I absorb it by osmosis, not really 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:10.238 working at it. And I'm working on learning to make time to learn how to make pasta. I have a 00:05:10.238 --> 00:05:14.369 teacher all lined up. It's my friend Kevin. He's right over there. And I keep breaking our 00:05:14.369 --> 00:05:19.009 appointments for him to come over and teach me how to make pasta. I'm sorry, Kevin. Do you 00:05:19.009 --> 00:05:23.928 have the little, the machine, the, the pasta? I, I, I will have it. Kevin has told me the one 00:05:23.928 --> 00:05:28.569 that I have to get. And I haven't, haven't, well, I just haven't gotten it yet. And um no, 00:05:28.649 --> 00:05:32.369 I'm really, really excited. I am hoping that I'm going to be someone who can make fresh 00:05:32.369 --> 00:05:36.850 pasta in my life. That's, that's a lovely thing to learn to do. Have we, I think we've 00:05:36.850 --> 00:05:41.129 got to the end of my bag. End of my bag too. There we are. We did it. We did it. Thank you 00:05:41.129 --> 00:05:45.730 for having us, New York Yorker. Thank you. And please everyone see The End of Oak Street, 00:05:45.769 --> 00:05:50.358 which will be in theaters on August 14th. God, we're good. I mean, we are good, aren't we? 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:50.970 Come on.