Ewan McGregor: Dahling, Heâs Halston!
For a new Netflix series, the actor dropped his lightsaber and picked up the cigarettes and scissors.
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May 7, 2021Updated 9:38 a.m. ET
When Ewan McGregor was but a wee lad in a sleepy town in Scotland in the â70s, some 3,200 miles away in a Manhattan townhouse on East 63rd Street, Roy Halston Frowick was living on a diet of baked potatoes with beluga caviar, chilled Stolichnaya, rent boys and mounds of cocaine piled in Elsa Peretti silver ashtrays. (With silver straws to match.)
âIâd never heard of him,â said a bearded Mr. McGregor, Zooming from his L.A. home. âI didnât know Halston at all.â