London
(ANI):
Ewan
Mcgregor
has
revealed
that
director
Roman
Polanski
almost
dropped
him
from
his
new
film
The
Ghost
Writer,
as
he
couldn"t
get
rid
of
his
Scottish
accent
and
develop
an
English
accent.
The
actor
said
that
the
Pianist" helmer
was
not
completely
satisfied
with
his
initial
effort.
"I
spoke
to
Roman
about
playing
the
ghost
with
a
Scottish
accent
and
he
said,
no
he
had
to
be
English.
Also,
he
(character)
went
to
Cambridge
(University),
so
my
first
thought
was
that
he
would
have
a
standard
English
accent;
I
find
it
difficult
to
do
that
accent
without
feeling
kind
of
posh.
I
really
wanted
the
ghost
not
to
be
posh," the
Daily
Express
quoted
Mcgregor
as
saying.
He
added:
"We
were
doing
the
wardrobe
fittings
and
I
hadn't
read
any
of
the
scenes
with
Polanski
and
we
had
two
days
before
we
were
ready
to
shoot.
I'm
trying
on
clothes
and
Roman
appears
every
now
and
again
and
I
said,
''Can
we
just
talk,
because
if
you
don''t
like
this
accent
I''m
going
to
have
to
think
of
something
else
quick.''
"We
finally
sat
down
to
read
the
scenes
and
he
was
much
more
picky
about
how
I
said
the
lines.
Right
from
the
get
go
he''d
say,
''No,
no,
why
would
you
read
it
like
this?''
And
he'd
take
the
whole
script
and
read
my
lines
for
me
until
finally
he
said,
''Now
you
see!''
I
didn't
know
what
I
had
done
differently
other
than
I
was
a
little
bit
more
frightened
than
I
was
a
minute
ago.
"The
next
morning
I
phoned
up
Roman
from
my
car
and
literally
read
him
some
scenes
using
the
London
accent
just
to
see
if
he
thought
it
was
OK
and
I
wanted
to
double
check.
I
actually
double
checked
sneakily
behind
Roman's
back
with
Robert
Harris,
the
writer
of
the
novel
-
and
he
said
it
was
alright."