Your boyfriend James McAvoy covers the September issue of Nylon Guys magazine. It’s a decent photoshoot, but I wish the whole shoot had been done in the country setting. They shouldn’t have relied so much on that white background for the shoot. I want to see McAvoy frolicking in a country garden in questionable sweaters. Anyway, James is promoting The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, which he says he turned down at first. The project was supposed to be two separate films, one for his story and one for Jessica Chastain’s story. But they put the two films together to make one film (thanks, Harvey Weinstein). Here are some highlights from the mag:

On his career: “For a long time, I was playing the normal guy in an exceptional world, or the normal guy who was in a relationship with someone much more weird and interesting. I was holding the audience’s hand, guiding them into a world they weren’t familiar with, keeping them onside when things got grotesque….Basically I was letting everybody else do the fireworks.”

On his past roles: “The last two or three years have been so unlike what I was doing for the 10 years before them…. There’s a part I’ve been offered and really want to do, but I was worried about taking it because the character is a proper mental case. And I feel like it’s been a couple of years of solely playing mental cases,” says McAvoy citing roles in Welcome to the Punch, Trance, and Filth.

On his role in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: The Scottish actor says he initially turned down the starring role in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby because its subject matter was “too close to the bone” for someone whose life was the picture of domestic bliss. “Then two or three years later….they had something like four days to save the film, so they came back to me. At that point, my kid wasn’t brand new anymore, so that made it a bit more feasible.”

Michael Fassbender on McAvoy: “Oh, he’s lethal! You’ll find him hiding underneath cars, waiting for you. He once tried to break into my trailer through the skylight. It’s like being in one of those Pink Panther films, and he’s Cato jumping out of the freezer. Just when you think the day’s over, you come home to find James sitting on your toilet with a BB gun.”

[From Nylon Guys]

If I came home to find James McAvoy sitting on my toilet with a BB gun… well, I’m not sure what I would do. Take off my clothes? Perhaps. Maybe offer to cook for him.

I do want to see TDOER, but I bet it won’t even come to my theater. It seems pretty art-house-y, but you never know. Here’s the latest trailer – I think James looks solid in this, but I’m actually a little worried that Chastain has been miscast.

Photos courtesy of Nylon Guys.