A new film out this week stars Christopher Plummer as a 75-year-old widower, Hal, who comes out of the closet as a gay man. Ewan McGregor, who portrays Hal's son, told Talking Movies' Tom Brook, why Mike Mills' film is both fact and fiction.
It's a rare experience, for an actor, to have the person he's portraying be present on a movie set. Ewan McGregor, in "Beginners," had an even more unusual experience: The man he was portraying was also the film's director and writer.
A gentle, quirky tale of life's passages, "Beginners" is the story of thirty-something Oliver (McGregor); actually, it's two stories of Oliver, told in shifting, parallel time frames: One is the relationship of Oliver with his father Hal (Christopher Plummer), who has come out as a gay man at age 75 after his wife's death, only to be diagnosed with cancer a few years later. The other, after his father's death, shows Oliver tentatively finding love in his own life. Oliver's real-life counterpart is Mike Mills, who was inspired to make the movie by his own father's story. More at source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com
A new film out this week stars Christopher Plummer as a 75-year-old widower, Hal, who comes out of the closet as a gay man. Ewan McGregor, who portrays Hal's son, told Talking Movies' Tom Brook, why Mike Mills' film is both fact and fiction.