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Ewan McGregoris gearing up to take the long way round again.
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“We might have anotherLong Wayup our sleeves,” McGregor hinted last Thursday. “We’ve got an idea and we’ve started to talk about it, so that’s in the early stages of fermentation. We’ll definitely do another one of those, but I’m not really at liberty to talk about where it would be yet.”
TheObi-Wan Kenobistarcouldn’t resist giving a small hint.
“We’ve done the Northern Hemisphere and then we’ve done all of the African continent, so there’s not a lot [we haven’t done],” McGregor said of his previous trips. “But when you think about it, our route is just a thin line across those massive lands, so there’s lots of it we didn’t see.”
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TheDoctor Sleepstarwas one of the featured guests at this year’sNew York Comic Con 2023— his very first one — alongside actors includingChris Evans,David Tennant,Zachary Levi,Tom HiddlestonandSusan Sarandon.
The annual event, which is the “East Coast’s biggest and most exciting popular culture convention,” per NYCC’swebsite, “plays host to the latest and greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies and television.”
While reflecting on hisLong Waytrips, McGregor added how both he and Boorman, 57, wanted to give back to the people they met along the way as they explored each country’s history and culture. That desire led them to partner withUNICEF, an agency that provides humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
“As young fathers as we were then, we wanted to help a children’s charity,” McGregor said of his preparation for the firstLong Wayseries. “UNICEF is [an organization] we’ve always been impressed with and wanted to be associated with, so we asked them when we were planningLong Way Round, if they could show us a few of their projects and told them our route. They were just amazing to work with.”
He then motorbiked further along into Astana, the capital ofKazakhstan, where he collaborated with UNICEF to set up climbing walls and competitions for children who dealt with abuse and violence. “These climbing walls totally turned around those areas and the kids had something physical to put their efforts into,” McGregor recalled. “There were kids that became really good climbers and became stars in that area.”
Motorbiking was key in helping the pair meet people “in a different way” as opposed to driving a car, according to McGregor.
He mentioned how in Mongolia and Kazakhstan, there are “still people who are nomadic,” where “the land doesn’t belong to anyone.”
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To that end, theFargoactor is “much happier and better on a bike.”
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“I can see more and I’m more aware of my surroundings,” McGregor said. “It ruins driving a car because you have to be so careful when you’re riding a motorbike that you become incredibly defensive and aware of what’s going on.”
“And then when you’re in a car, you drive it in the same manner – which you should do anyway,” McGregor added with a laugh. “Someone else is going to drive me home, don’t worry.”
source: people.com
