嗯，跟科林法洛沒關係，這個科林是Ewan的親哥哥 :P
他最近為一個蘇格蘭的慈善機構代言，推出一款慈善蘇格蘭裙
來幫助因公傷害的軍人與其家庭
因為他本身是皇家空軍的飛行員，參與過波灣戰爭與現在的中東戰爭（@@）
對這種事情頗能感同身受........
貼出新聞是因為有些地方關於Ewan還蠻有趣的 :P
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2359394,00.html
The Sunday Times September 17, 2006
Star Wars meets Dam Busters
Karin Goodwin talks to Colin McGregor, the elder brother of actor Ewan and
an RAF officer who is campaigning on behalf of families of servicemen
injured in tours of duty
Two years ago, Squadron Leader Colin McGregor spent an unforgettable three
weeks on set in Australia, where his younger brother, Ewan, was shooting Star
Wars: Episode III. The drama of the shooting, the colour and noise of the
set, the presence of other great actors all left their mark on him, but his
sharpest memory is of an experience that conjured up Colin’s childhood with
his brother.
“We used to have lightsabres as kids and have fights in the bedroom,” he
says. “To be physically doing it for real is just quite funny. It was
amazing. Ewan and I really enjoyed that together.”
In the 30 years since they played in the family home in Crieff, the lives of
the two McGregors would seem to any outsider to have drifted apart. Since
filming such modern classics as Trainspotting and Moulin Rouge!, the closest
Ewan has come to Colin’s world was a role in Black Hawk Down, Hollywood’s
take on the US military’s involvement in Somalia.
For Colin, 36, who joined the RAF three years after leaving Morrison’s
Academy, the loudest echo of his brother’s life was his commission into 617
Squadron, immortalised in the 1954 film The Dam Busters. His tours of duty in
Iraq, from where he has just returned to his home base at Lossiemouth, seem
as far away from the cossetted life of a film star as they could possibly be.
Or not, according to Colin, who lives on the base with his wife and two young
children. “It might sound strange, but you can draw quite a lot of parallels
between what we do,” he says. “Ewan’s a really patient guy — he sits
around on set all day before he finally gets to do his thing. And in a kind
of way, that mirrors what we do as well. We, too, have lots of periods of
inactivity blended with a couple of minutes of frantic activity.”
Physically, the brothers are alike. Colin’s redder hair and stockier frame
set him apart from his darker, younger sibling, but they share the same
gentle, almost nervous, smile and there is no doubt that emotionally they are
close.
Recently, Ewan provided the voiceover for an STV series called The Jet Set,
which followed the fortunes of trainee pilots trying to make the grade for
617 Squadron. It was after watching the series that Erskine, the charity
caring for ex-servicemen and women, got in touch, and Colin is now helping it
launch a new tartan, which will be sold to raise badly needed funds for the
association.
It’s a cause he’s passionate about. The recent loss in Afghanistan of 14
men in an RAF Nimrod has really brought home the dangers, not least because
the dead men were based at nearby Kinloss.
“It does make my involvement in this charity more poignant,” he says. “The
tragedy of the Nimrod brings home the fact to people that guys are still
risking their lives. But you don’t hear about the injured people, and there
are lots of them. They don’t make the headlines but they need support, and
that’s what Erskine is all about.”
The McGregor family had no great military tradition. Colin’s grandfather
fought in the second world war and his father had a passion for aircraft,
taking his sons to air shows at RAF Leuchars in Fife. But Colin’s decision
to join the forces was something new. After meeting an RAF recruitment
officer at a school careers fair, he was hooked.
“I think it was different for my generation because when we first joined the
RAF, we never really imagined we’d be involved in combat,” he says. “We
were joining for the thrill, but I’m not sure that service to our country
was paramount in our minds. Now that’s completely changed.”
The first Gulf war brought a clash with Ewan, who did not like the thought of
Colin serving in a war he saw as unjust. “There was quite a bit of healthy
debate,” says Colin. When the war in Iraq broke out, he found the arguments
had dried up — Ewan was simply worried. So far, 118 British service
personnel have died in Iraq.
For those on active service, says Colin, the fears are for family. “You
worry about people at home and if you’ll come back,” he says. “But when
you physically get in the aircraft, you are more concerned about failing in
your own task than someone shooting you. In fact, if someone’s shooting at
you, it can sharpen your focus.”
He gathers strength from his close bond with his brother, who visits the base
regularly and has flown with Colin twice in a fighter jet. “Let’s just say
I made him ill both times,” says Colin.
While swooping over lochs and glens is a pleasure for Colin, it is the work
being done in Iraq, to which he will soon return, that is his real driving
force. “When we are out there, we talk about it among ourselves all the time
— are we doing the right things, and so on. But at the end of the day, you
do feel like you’re playing your part in the rebuilding of that country.
You’ve just got to believe that you’re doing the right thing.”
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其實某種程度上還是靠Ewan 哈哈 做善事不計較
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