

Of course, not all have been phenomenal (Rogue Trader, anyone?), but then we once put Posh Spice on the cover, so nobody’s perfect. Over the past 100 issues, he’s made a phenomenal 21 movies.

Presently not doing any press in the run-up to a summer full of Star Wars soundbiting, he’s taken time out from a frantic shooting schedule on Michael Bay’s $120 million futuristic thriller The Island and is on magnificently perky form, all smiles and backslaps as we reflect on a career that has landed him the honour of The Actor Of Our Lifetime. This, though, is very much the new McGregor. When Total Film launched and the boy from Crieff was taking off for the A-list on the back of Brit-grit classic Trainspotting, you’d have been much more likely to share pints and tabs than lattes and muffins. There was a time when an 8am chat and snapping session with McGregor would have been almost unthinkable – unless you wanted a severely hungover interviewee.
