The roles played by Ewan McGregor have taken him far: to a galaxy far, far away (three “Star Wars” prequels and their small-screen follow-up, “Obi-Wan Kenobi”); to post-Bolshevik Revolution Russia (“A Gentleman in Moscow”); even to the bottom of the worst toilet in Scotland (“Trainspotting,” the second of four collaborations with filmmaker Danny Boyle).
Yet outside of a handful of movie premieres and a visit to the Dolby (formerly Kodak) Theatre that ended with his Porsche 550 Spider replica broken down outside the parking lot (“Superman came over, and then Spider-Man and then Marilyn Monroe — it was a who’s who standing ‘round a broken replica of James Dean’s
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