Ewan's private parts face chop

13 April 2012

Scots superstar Ewan McGregor poked fun at America at the UK premiere of his new film - for leaving his finest part on the cutting room floor.

McGregor is worried his raunchy new film, Young Adam, which includes a full frontal nude scene of himself, will not pass prudish censors on the other side of the Atlantic.

McGregor said: "They are cutting me off in America. You can blow thousands of people's heads off with a semi-automatic machine gun but you can't show a picture of my willy.

"I believe they're cutting the scene out.

"They're a bit worried about willies in the States, they are a bit worried about seeing my old chap.

"It's not something I am worried about terribly much."

McGregor plays a ruthless, bed-hopping young drifter in a film described as shockingly dark and erotic, which includes violent sex scenes.

It has one passage where McGregor erotically smothers co-star Emily Mortimer with custard and ketchup.

The film has received rave reviews at a one-off industry screening and scooped the best new British film award at the Edinburgh Film Festival earlier this year.

The 32-year-old star was accompanied to the film's premiere in Leicester Square, London by his wife, Eve.

McGregor added: "I think it is really good and it is an important film. I have always thought that film should reflect life. I am nude all the time at home."

Heavily pregnant Mortimer, whose baby is due in just two weeks, added: "Doing any of those scenes is a bit like going to the dentist, the run up to it, the anticipation is not very nice, but it's not as bad when you actually do it."

The film is based on a book by Scots author Alexander Trocchi, a debauched sex-crazed, drug addict who lived in 1950s Glasgow.

He died of pneumonia in 1984 in London.

Tilda Swinton, 42, plays the wife of barge owner Peter Mullan and has an affair with McGregor.

Cambridge-educated Swinton, who has acted alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in The Beach and with Nicolas Cage in Adaptation added: "It felt like real life to me, not that that's my life, but I felt it was about loneliness. It's so important people realise we are all just humans, scared little animals.

"When you go into something you really want to do, you can't worry what other people are going to say."

Hundreds of film fans queued outside the cinema to get a glimpse of the stars.

Other celebrities who attended included Michael Sheen, who stars in Underworld with Kate Beckinsale and Jerry Butler from Tomb Raider and who has just secured the lead in a film version of Phantom of the Opera, opposite Minnie Driver.

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