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