Ewan McGregor Won’t Soon Forget His Fashion Turn as Halston

Imagine, if you will, a galaxy far, far away where the one-name fashion wonder Halston dresses Obi-Wan Kenobi in something fabulous from the swinging ’70s.

Ewan McGregor can. Sort of.

McGregor is in the unique position of being the sole person — on this planet anyway — who might care, considering his dual roles as the Jedi master and the flamboyant designer, the latter the subject of a new Netflix miniseries and the former a Disney+ “Star Wars” installment that has the Scottish actor on set in Los Angeles.

“It would be much more comfortable,” he told The Associated Press during a recent interview on Zoom. “It would all be in cashmere, you know, none of that heavy blanket material stuff.”

Although “Halston” doesn’t drop until Friday, it has already generated some heat for McGregor and director Daniel Minahan, both among the series’ executive producers with Ryan Murphy.

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