Ewan and Clara Mcgregor appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live in February 2024.Photo:Disney/Randy Holmes
Disney/Randy Holmes
Clara McGregoris reflecting on the “uncomfortable” moment that she and her high school gender studies class watched her fatherEwan’s 1997 filmThe Pillow Book— nude scenes included.
During an appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live, where the father-daughter duo promoted their latest projectBleeding Love, 28-year-old Clara described her “quite memorable” experience of watching one of her dad’s films as part of a high school class.
“And I said it was fine. I didn’t really think much of it. And so we watched the movie calledThe Pillow Book, which is a brilliant film,” she said. “But watching that movie at 17 with your entire high school class, it’s more like they’re watching me watch that film, which was definitely an interesting…”
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After Kimmel interrupted to ask Ewan if he appeared nude in the film, he replied, “a lot.”
“Full-frontally nude, the whole time,” Clara responded.
As theStar Warsactor explained, his daughter’s teacher had emailed him before showing the film as well, asking for his permission to play the movie for Clara’s class. “I went, ‘Look, I wouldn’t want to be the reason you don’t show that movie to your kids because it’s a beautiful movie,’ " Ewan recalled. “But I said, ‘You have to guarantee that the kids are mature enough not to make fun of Clara or make her feel bad about it.’ "
“They were,” Clara said. “It was uncomfortable. I think they also probably felt a little uncomfortable.”
Kimmel then joked about the class' potential response to seeing one of Ewan’s nude scenes: “They’re like, ‘Oh, there’s where she came from.’ "
Clara, Ewan’s eldest offive children, previously opened up to PEOPLE about the “incredible experience” of now working with her father on their filmBleeding Love, in which the two star as a father-daughter duo on a road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico who “are forced to confront the issues of their past that have led to their frail relationship,” per a synopsis.
“There was something special about [Ewan] being a part of a film that I was also producing and had put together,” Clara said.
“It’s rare as an adult that you get to spend that amount of time with your parents, so that was really special,” she added. “I’d always admired my dad as an actor and getting to act with him showed me how good he is at what he does.”
Bleeding Lovearrives in theaters on Feb. 16.
source: people.com
