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Ewan McGregor is a Russian aristocrat imprisoned in a luxury hotel after the Bolshevik revolution

- SEAN MARLAND

We last saw Ewan McGregor travelling through the vast reaches of space as Star Wars’ Obi-Wan Kenobi – but the location for his latest TV role couldn’t be more different.

In Paramount+’s period drama A Gentleman in Moscow, the Scottish star is confined to quarters as a Russian aristocrat imprisoned in a Moscow hotel for more than three decades after being caught on the wrong side of history.

HOUSE ARREST Based on the bestselling novel by Amor Towles, the eight-part drama follows the fictional Count Alexander Rostov, who returns to his homeland in 1921 following the country’s Bolshevik revolution. As a member of the upper class, Count Rostov is immediately placed on trial, but he narrowly avoids execution when it transpires he wrote a communist poem in his youth.

Instead, he’s told me must live out the rest of his days in a grotty attic room of the otherwise opulent Moscow Metropol and warned that if he ever steps outside, he’ll be shot…