Actor Ewan McGregor is the newest addition to the cast of Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast. McGregor is set to play as the singing French candlestick.
According to a report, the Scottish actor will lend his voice as Lumiere, the French candelabra, which is one of the film's major supporting roles. Ewan McGregor plays a charming and easygoing host which was a result of a curse in the Prince's palace. He is expected to have several musical numbers and will in fact have a solo part during the "Be Our Guest" showstopper. Production will start next month at Shepperton Studios in London which will directed by Bill Condon.
Another report says the actor will sing one of the musical scores of Alan Menken who won two Oscars for the 1991 animated movie of the same title. He will also render some of the songs in the old movie and new songs of Menken and Tim Rice. Meanwhile, a new character named Cadenza which is the grand piano, will be portrayed byThe Hunger Games' Stanley Tucci. The report said if the 1997 direct-to-video "Beauty and the Beast:The Enchanted Christmas" will be followed, Tucci's character will be a villain wherein he disrupts Belle and the Beast's growing romance because he does not want the spell to be broken. The reason is that it would mean he can no longer be a pipe organ. His character was described as a psychotic maestro.
Meanwhile, other casts include Ian McKellen, a grouchy clock named Cogsworth and Emma Thompson as the motherly Mrs Potts. Both are Lumiere's partners in crime. Lumiere is also said to seduce Gugu Mbatha Raw's flirtatious feather duster and protect the castle together with Audra McDonald's outspoken wardrobe. Moreover, Emma Watson plays as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston and Kevin Kline as Belle's father.
A number of singing scenes are expected especially from the tenor-voiced Ewan McGregor, when the live-action Beauty and the Beast opens in theaters on March 17, 2017.
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