Ewan McGregor Teases New “Long Way ”Series as He Shares His Passion for Motorbiking: 'I Absolutely Love It'

The Star Wars actor opens up about how he’s “much happier and better on a bike” when he travels

Ewan McGregor is gearing up to take the long way round again.

During a recent panel at New York Comic Con, the Star Wars actor, 52, teased a return to his motorbiking adventure series with British TV presenter Charley Boorman. Their travel show, Long Way Up, which debuted on Apple TV+ in 2020, saw the pair motorbiking on their electric Harley-Davidsons across South and Central America.

The series was the third in a saga of their globe-trotting rides where the duo experience different cultures while overcoming the elements and adversity of traveling on motorbike. Long Way Round (2004) and Long Way Down (2007) are both available to watch on Apple TV+"

“We might have another Long Way up our sleeves,” McGregor hinted last Thursday. “We’ve got an idea and we’ve started to talk about it, so that’s in the early stages of fermentation. We’ll definitely do another one of those, but I’m not really at liberty to talk about where it would be yet.”

The Obi-Wan Kenobi star couldn’t resist giving a small hint.

“We’ve done the Northern Hemisphere and then we’ve done all of the African continent, so there’s not a lot [we haven’t done],” McGregor said of his previous trips. “But when you think about it, our route is just a thin line across those massive lands, so there’s lots of it we didn’t see.”

The Doctor Sleep star was one of the featured guests at this year’s New York Comic Con 2023 — his very first one — alongside actors including Chris Evans, David Tennant, Zachary Levi, Tom Hiddleston and Susan Sarandon.

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The annual event, which is the “East Coast's biggest and most exciting popular culture convention,” per NYCC’s website, “plays host to the latest and greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies and television.”

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While reflecting on his Long Way trips, McGregor added how both he and Boorman, 57, wanted to give back to the people they met along the way as they explored each country’s history and culture. That desire led them to partner with UNICEF, an agency that provides humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.

“As young fathers as we were then, we wanted to help a children’s charity,” McGregor said of his preparation for the first Long Way series. “UNICEF is [an organization] we’ve always been impressed with and wanted to be associated with, so we asked them when we were planning Long Way Round, if they could show us a few of their projects and told them our route. They were just amazing to work with.”

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The Moulin Rouge star then reminisced about the three projects he worked on with UNICEF. The first was in Ukraine, where the motorbikers aided children who were affected by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. “We were just blown away by the courage and the resolve of those people,” McGregor said of the children and volunteers he met.

He then motorbiked further along into Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, where he collaborated with UNICEF to set up climbing walls and competitions for children who dealt with abuse and violence. “These climbing walls totally turned around those areas and the kids had something physical to put their efforts into,” McGregor recalled. “There were kids that became really good climbers and became stars in that area.”

The last project took place in Mongolia, where the travelers were “very moved” by the kids who lived in “big heating ducts underground” during the country’s cold wintertime. Mongolia is where the father of five would later adopt his daughter, Jamyan McGregor, 22, who was then 4 years old at the time in 2006.

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Motorbiking was key in helping the pair meet people “in a different way” as opposed to driving a car, according to McGregor.

He mentioned how in Mongolia and Kazakhstan, there are “still people who are nomadic,” where “the land doesn’t belong to anyone.”

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“When we turned up on our motorbikes, they treated us like them,” McGregor said. “You’re susceptible to the elements. If it’s raining, you get wet. If it’s cold, you get cold, so they’re just very friendly. I don’t know if we turned up in big Jeeps or four-by-fours, that it would’ve felt the same.”

To that end, the Fargo actor is “much happier and better on a bike.”

“I can see more and I’m more aware of my surroundings,” McGregor said. “It ruins driving a car because you have to be so careful when you’re riding a motorbike that you become incredibly defensive and aware of what’s going on.”

“And then when you’re in a car, you drive it in the same manner – which you should do anyway,” McGregor added with a laugh. “Someone else is going to drive me home, don’t worry.”  

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