Ewan McGregor and daughter Clara put on stylish displays at premiere of You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder

Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara put on a fashionable display as they attended the You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder premiere at the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas on Saturday.

The 51-year-old Scottish actor cut a dapper figure in a khaki t-shirt, navy striped blazer and matching navy trousers. 

Meanwhile, Clara looked incredible in a silver metallic dress.

Ewan and his eldest daughter Clara have had a rocky relationship, since she famously branded her dad’s second wife a ‘piece of trash’ and her dad an ‘a***hole’. 

The father and daughter have repaired their relationship over the past five years and recently completed work on their first joint project.  

You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder, is a film conceived by Clara, with Ewan explaining of his daughter’s pitch to him: ‘She tells me that she’d come up with an idea about writing about us. 

‘At first I was a bit nervous. I didn’t know what that meant.’ 

The film focuses on a father daughter road trip, with Ewan’s character driving his daughter, played by Clara, to rehab. 

While the drive is fictional, the premise of a dad trying to help his daughter is based on Clara’s own experience. 

‘I sat down to read it and I was blown away. It was a beautiful story about us. There’s things that aren’t accurate, or are bent, but they still reflect our estrangement for a while,’ explained the actor.

‘The drive is fictional. But for a couple of years, we sort of lost her. So the storyline is about her realising that she needs the help her father’s trying to give. 

‘Along the way, their relationship is healed somewhat.’ 

Stylish: The 51-year-old Scottish actor cut a dapper figure in a khaki t-shirt, navy blazer and matching trousers

Dapper: Putting on a stylish display, his white socks poked through from his slightly cropped bottoms

Family ties: Ewan and his eldest daughter Clara have had a rocky relationship, since she famously branded her dad’s second wife a ‘piece of trash’ and her dad an ‘a***hole’ 

‘I was so impressed by the story, by the humour. There’s a sort of recognition in it that made me very proud and at the same time very close to her. 

‘I felt like she understood more than I’d thought.’

When asked by GQ what he felt his daughter had understood, Ewan elaborated: ‘My position, but also stuff about parenting somebody who’s in trouble. 

‘It’s a f**king horribly difficult situation to be in. You’re so scared of what can happen. You will do anything in the world to stop losing them.’ 

He later mused in a rare comment about his messy split from Clara’s mother: ‘A divorce in a family is a bomb going off in everyone’s life – my children’s lives. The sort of healing of that is ongoing.’ 

Ewan recently revealed his changing perspective on parenting, after welcoming a baby with his new wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Wow! Meanwhile, Clara looked incredible in a silver metallic dress

Joint project: The father and daughter have repaired their relationship over the past five years and recently completed work on their first joint project 

Group shot: The pair appeared in good spirits as they posed on the red carpet together outside the screening. (Pictured L-R: Vera Bulder, Christine Vachon, Clara, Ewan and Emma Westenberg)

Focus: The film focuses on a father daughter road trip, with Ewan’s character driving his daughter, played by Clara, to rehab

Ewan was married to his first wife Eve Mavrakis, 56, for 22 years, and the couple share four daughters together. But in 2017 he was pictured kissing his Fargo co-star Mary Elizabeth, 37, leading to his 2020 divorce and his second marriage last year.

Ewan and Mary share a son Laurie and the actor reflected on twenty years of parenting in a candid interview with British GQ, including his ‘difficult’ period of estrangement from eldest daughter Clara.

The Scottish star explained how lockdown changed his perspective on his career/ family balance as he realised it had been decades since he’s stayed put in one place for longer than a few months.

‘I just want to be present. I don’t want to be away for four months in Romania,’ he told GQ. ‘If it has to happen, maybe it has to happen, but I’m trying really hard not to do that’.

Referring to his years parenting his four daughters, Clara, 26, Jamyan, 20, Esther, 19, and 10-year-old Anouk, which coincided with his heady post-Trainspotting career high, Ewan mused: ‘Before, I just felt like a gypsy. I was always a dad first, but I was away a lot.’

Ewan and Mary first met on the set of their TV series Fargo in 2016, before the actress split from her husband of seven years Riley Stearns in May 2017. Ewan then separated from Eve in January 2017 and filed for divorce. 

Ex: The Star Wars actor, 51, was married to his first wife Eve Mavrakis, 56, for 22 years, and the couple share four daughters together (pictured in 1996)