Ewan McGregor Gets Touchingly Nostalgic in Exclusive 'Long Way Home' Clip
Since 2004, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman have been obsessed with doing things the long way. Starting with the series Long Way Round, over twenty years ago, the pair have been documenting epic motorcycle road trips. After Long Way Round, we got Long Way Down in 2007 and Long Way Up in 2020.
Now, starting this week, McGregor and Boorman are back for their fourth motorcycle series, Long Way Home, which Apple TV+ describes as another epic series of trips in which the pair will ride "through 17 European countries on cranky old bikes."
But, part of that journey brings McGregor back to his roots. In the first episode — hitting Apple TV+ on Friday, May 9 — the first leg of the big motorcycle trip kicks off in Scotland, as the Morrison Academy Pipe Band plays the bagpipes to celebrate the start of the journey. Men's Journal is pumped to present an exclusive clip from the episode, in which McGregor talks to his parents about having played drums in a bagpipe marching band when he was a kid.
In the clip, we meet McGregor's parents and hear him talk about having played drums in a pipe band himself back in the day. And then, when the Morrison's Academy Pipe Band shows up, McGregor briefly gets back into his old position as a drum player.
It's all a prelude to the big motorcycle trip, but it's an emotional one. In the first episode, McGregor will refurbish his "old California police bike," and Boorman will bring "a 1970s rust heap back from the dead."