10 Actors Who Can't Catch A Break

10. Ewan McGregor

From a critical sense, there’s nothing wrong with Ewan McGregor’s recent filmography. His selection of roles has become savvier as he has aged, and he has found interesting parts in the likes of Miles Ahead. In his more mainstream work, he tends to be the best thing about a movie (Birds Of A Feather), and he was a revelation on the small screen in his Fargo dual role.

The problem is that, commercially, McGregor seems somewhat less savvy. T2 Trainspotting and Christopher Robin were reasonable successes, but Birds Of Prey failed to break even, and The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep was disappointing for an adaptation of the usually bankable Stephen King.

Worse still was American Pastoral. While a big screen reimagining of a wordy Philip Roth novel never had blockbuster potential, its critical and commercial failure was a stinger for its director, Ewan McGregor.

McGregor is due to reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a new Disney+ series, but recent global events have seen this set back, and this April a new writer was brought in to rework the script.