Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor. VALERIE MACON/AFP by way of Getty Pictures
Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are Star Wars icons, however their son, Laurie, is extra into Grogu a.ok.a. Child Yoda.
“We now have a bit bit [of merch]. It creeps in,” Winstead, 39, revealed through the Monday, March 11, episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.
McGregor, who portrays Jedi Grasp Obi-Wan Kenobi within the film franchise and Obi-Wan Kenobi sequence, famous, “There’s a few Obi-Wan dolls that our son Laurie calls ‘Daddy.’”
Winstead mentioned their 2-year-old will stroll by the doll and say, “Oh, hello daddy!”
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The Obi-Wan merchandise, nevertheless, doesn’t examine to Laurie’s Grogu assortment, which is why the couple thought he would love assembly the character in actual life.
“There was an enormous build-up to it as a result of he’s bought a number of Grogu stuffed animals that he loves. I imply, since he was born to now,” Winstead defined to host Jimmy Fallon. “He loves them. He desires to take them in all places.”
The actress, who portrays Twi’lek pilot Hera Syndulla on the Ahsoka sequence, was excited to introduce her son to Child Yoda throughout a set go to. Sadly, the meet and greet backfired.
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“We had been like, ‘Laurie, you’re going to fulfill the actual Grogu!’ And he was like, a 12 months and a half at this level,” Winstead recalled. “Everyone was there to make this occur to, like, deliver Grogu to life in entrance of him … and it went actually badly.”
McGregor, 52, revealed that their infant “freaked out” and “misplaced it” on the sight of the creature. “He didn’t prefer it,” the actor defined, to which Winstead mentioned it was merely “an excessive amount of” and “too bizarre” for him.
Winstead confessed that Laurie “screamed the entire time,” which McGregor mentioned stunned the workforce on set. “The puppeteers had been like, ‘Oh, sorry. Sorry.’ … [Laurie] was, like, screaming his head off.”
McGregor and Winstead had been first linked in October 2017 after they labored collectively on Fargo. On the time, the Scottish actor was married to Eve Mavrakis, with whom he shares 4 kids.
McGregor filed for divorce from Mavrakis, now 57, in January 2018, itemizing Could 2017 as their month of separation. The authorized break up was finalized two years later.
Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead introduced their onscreen romance into the actual world after working collectively on FX’s Fargo. The pair appeared on season 3 of the anthology crime drama, which debuted in April 2017. McGregor portrayed twins Emmit Stussy and Ray Stussy, whereas Winstead performed Nikki Swango, Ray’s fiancée. One month after her […]
Winstead was additionally married previous to her relationship with McGregor. She introduced in Could 2017 that she and Riley Stearns known as it quits after seven years of marriage.
Regardless of the controversy round their preliminary romance, McGregor and Winstead’s relationship continued to flourish over the subsequent few years. The twosome welcomed their son, Laurie, in June 2021 and tied the knot the next April.
In February 2023, the couple introduced they had been reuniting on display screen to costar in Showtime and Paramount+’s upcoming sequence, A Gentleman in Moscow, which premieres this month.
