“Because there’s something very special that Charley and I share. “When Charley had his accident and I found out that he’d been very badly hurt, it was like a jolt to put effort into this friendship, to not to let it drift like this,” McGregor says. The documentary serves as a vehicle for two gearhead friends to reconnect following Boorman’s devastating motorcycle accident in 2016. The 11-episode series marks the duo’s first trip entirely in the New World, their first venture on a streaming platform, and their first journey together in quite a long time to boot. Now Long Way Up finds the pair navigating from the southern tip of Argentina in South America all the way up to Los Angeles. Long Way Up is the third installment in an accidental trilogy that McGregor and Boorman have been living out for the past decade and a half. With production on Disney+’s untitled Obi-Wan Kenobi series starring McGregor on hold for script rewrites, McGregor is ushering in another project he’s passionate about: Long Way Up for Apple TV+. It was never a chore.”įor now, Star Wars is in the rearview. Then a bunch of people were arriving going, ‘Oh, we didn’t know where you’d be.’ Turns out (our location) was on a Star Wars social media platform or site. Then the same thing happened on another flight of stairs up. “We were going up and someone asked for an autograph. “We were in a small town and there are these long winding steps all the way up to this famous lighthouse,” McGregor says. In 2019, when McGregor and his travel writer friend Charley Boorman arrived in a small South American town (McGregor thinks it was in Peru) amid a long motorcycle journey, so too did a legion of fans excited to meet Obi-Wan Kenobi. Wherever Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor goes, a certain bearded Jedi follows.

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