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Ewan McGregor Makes This Shocking Admission About ‘Halston’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. You and McGregor is
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  Speaker 1: winning high praise for inviting the late legendary designer Holston
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  Speaker 1: in the Netflix bio series of the same name. He
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  Speaker 1: captures him in his performance, which is why it's all
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  Speaker 1: the more surprising that before being pitched the idea, You
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  Speaker 1: and really didn't know who Holston was. He tells Variety,
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  Speaker 1: I had an afternoon where my agents set up a
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  Speaker 1: few meetings. The very first person I met was the
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  Speaker 1: man who would end up directing the entire series. He
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  Speaker 1: started talking about Holston, this man I'd never heard of,
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  Speaker 1: like the most famous person I'd never known. After that meeting,
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  Speaker 1: I read as much about Houston as I could and
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  Speaker 1: realized I really wanted to play him. You And says,
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  Speaker 1: even after he jumped on board, it was tough to
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  Speaker 1: get the project off the ground until Ryan Murphy caught
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  Speaker 1: wind of it, and the rest is history. Houston has
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