McGregor: 'Glasgow women terrify me'
Scottish heartthrob Ewan McGregor is terrified of women from Glasgow, he has revealed.
The Star Wars actor was repeatedly shunned as he looked for a little romance as a teenager.
“They are fantastically hard, they just don’t let you get away with anything,” he said.
“When you are growing up and you’re trying to pull them, they’re absolutely terrifying.”
McGregor, 34, said there was always a lot of drinking in Scotland and therefore a lot of drunken womanising.
But he was never hugely successful.
“Glaswegian girls don’t stand for any s***,” he added. “If you try and chat them up they just cut you down.”
He recalls being chastised for talking about his feelings with one such lucky lady.
“She was saying, ’I know what you want, just get on with it,”’ he said.
McGregor is not complaining though, and says that being terrifying is actually a good thing.
“I love them to bits,” he told the August edition of Playboy magazine.
The actor, whose first love was a girl he met at Fife College, says he misses Scotland and starts having flashbacks if away for three or four months.
“I have vivid memories of my home in Crieff and the Highlands,” he said. “I pine for it and love going back.”
McGregor also admits that he was a miserable drunk and frequently turned up on set worse for wear before quitting booze altogether four years ago.
“I think drinking and being out of control narrow your options in front of the camera,” he said. “I was just ashamed of myself, really.
“None of my directors ever said, ’You know, I’d rather you didn’t drink at work.’ None of them. And they must have known. I was reeking of it.”
He added: “Originally I was a happy drunk but later I was miserable because it’s a depressant.”
