“Twisting the knife as I look into your eyes…” Eeeek! It sounds like something from a horror film, but they’re the words that a movie extra penned in an ode to Ewan McGregor…
Understandably, production on Ewan McGregor’s new movie The Impossible – based on actual events from the 2004 Tsunami, currently filming in Phang-na, Thailand, was stopped immediately after the death threats were found - the psychotic writer of the Ewan McGregor ‘death poems’ was actually found in Ewan McGregor’s trailer with them. In fact, the unnamed American had even been used as a stand-in for the Scottish actor!
'His position as stand-in was not important,' said a member of local production crew Santa Films, adding: 'It just means he is on set when McGregor is not and stands in so the cameraman can see what the scene will look like. It's only paid about £60 a day.'
The crew member went on to explain that: 'We could not call Thai police because the man had only written poetry, and they would be unlikely to understand. Instead there was no confrontation.
'The extra was told that he would not be needed for a week and he would be called when it was time. He was not called. He looked a little wide-eyed and preoccupied. The producers decided that he was a serious risk. I understand he later applied for a position on Scorpion King 3 which is filming in Thailand at the moment.’
We’d guess that the crew on The Scorpion King 3 won’t be too happy to see him either and seriously, if you were Ewan McGregor, even though they were never on set at the same time, just how scary would that have been?!