CS sits down with Ewan McGregor and his American Pastoral cast In front of the camera for more than two decades, Ewan McGregor also takes the director’s chair for the first time with this Friday’s American Pastoral, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Phillip Roth. CS recently had the chance to sit down with McGregor and his American Pastoral cast and, in the player below, you can check out conversations with stars Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning and Uzo Aduba.