Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead reveal their son Laurie, two, ‘freaked out’ meeting Baby Yoda: ‘He was terrified!’
Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead have revealed that their son Laurie ‘freaked out’ when he met Grogu, aka Baby Yoda.
The Star Wars couple’s youngest child, whom they welcomed in 2021, grew up surrounded by science fiction.
And he recently got the chance to meet the real Grogu, but it didn’t go quite as planned.
Din Grogu, commonly known as Baby Yoda, is a character from the Star Wars Disney+ original television series The Mandalorian, starring Ewan and Mary.
Ewan explained SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show: ‘He’s had a toy Grogu since he was born, the stuffed animal, you know, and then I was visiting Mary on set when she was doing ‘Ahsoka’ and I brought Laurie along and the puppeteers had the real Grogu there.
Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead have revealed that their son Laurie ‘freaked out’ when he met Grogu, aka Baby Yoda.
Their son recently got the chance to meet the real Grogu, but things didn’t go quite as planned
“They brought him out and we took him in, Laurie into a room to meet Grogu and Grogu was sitting on a little pedestal, and all the guys were kind of standing off to the side but letting him work with their remotes and Grogu was communicating with Laurie and he panicked, like he was completely lost.”
Host Jess asked: Wait, in a good way, or was he-
The father of five replied: No, in a bad way. In a bad way. He was terrified.
Mary added: “He was terrified. He didn’t want to go near it because he was really little at the time, so he was about one and a half, so we held him up and, you know, we brought him over to Grogu and it looked like he was climbing away.
“His whole body was crawling to get away. We’re saying, ‘Oh my God. This wasn’t the reaction we were hoping for.'”
Mary, who tied the knot with Ewan in a small ceremony in April 2022, previously told EW that Laurie was “obsessed” with Grogu, and certainly no stranger to Star Wars paraphernalia.
“As for our son’s favorite toy, he has his Grogu,” she said.
“He has Lola from the Obi-Wan series. There are many Dadas from different eras of Obi-Wan. When he sees an Obi-Wan figure, it’s Dada. That’s how he knows it now.’
Ewan and Mary Elizabeth have been together since 2017 after meeting on the set of Fargo.
Ewan and Mary Elizabeth have been together since 2017 after meeting on the set of Fargo
The Trainspotting star shares four daughters with ex-wife Eve Mavrakis, they split in 2017 after 22 years of marriage and their divorce was finalized in August 2020.
The couple, who met on the set of TV crime drama Kavanagh QC, first confirmed their split in 2017, amid claims Ewan saw Mary kissing in a London restaurant.
Around the same time, Eve was depicted without her wedding ring.
Ewan – who blamed ‘irreconcilable differences’ for the split – then started dating Mary. The couple welcomed Laurie into the world in June.
The actor can soon be seen in Disney+ series OBO Wan Kenobi in the title role and in Guillermo Del Toro’s stop-motion musical film Pinocchio as the voice of Jiminy Cricket.