Ewan McGregor is always ready for a change of pace on the big screen, from singing and dancing in Moulin Rouge to swinging a light saber in Star Wars. Now he’s teaming up with controversial director Roman Polanski in The Ghost Writer.

In the film, McGregor’s character is hired to complete the memoirs of an ex-British prime minister under fire for taking his nation into war. Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out why a real-life prime minister may not be buying a ticket to see the film. Plus, why McGregor is more than ready to bare all on film.

“When I read the script for the first time I thought, ‘Tony Blair is all over this character, even if he’s called Adam Lang.’ Polanski takes it a little farther because the ex-prime minister in the film is being charged with war crimes…”

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