when he agreed to play the eponymous gentleman Count Alexander Rostov in Paramount+’s big budget TV adaptation. But when he did read the book one thing could not be overlooked: the hair.
McGregor took the part on instinct. He loved the character – mannered, constant, buffeted by forces beyond his control – but it was only as filming concluded, he says, that he understood what had drawn him to it.“Now I can look back, analyse the character and his arc and see that of course, there’s a lot of things that I can relate to — in terms of me being a dad and his becoming a father through the piece. I didn’t even think about it until I was shooting it.
McGregor and his wife used an intimacy co-ordinator for their bedroom scenes: “It’s still necessary because it’s also about the crew,” McGregor says. “And it’s odd to be naked in front of people, it’s odd to be intimate in front of the camera.”