--- description: Actor Ewan McGregor will play the posh candelabra Lumiere in Disney’s upcoming live-action Beauty and the Beast. title: Ewan McGregor Will Play Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d621dd302dae126/6987ec2c0b72e3721c6e19d6/ewan-mcgregor-lumiere.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Ewan McGregor Will Play Lumiere in _Beauty and the Beast_ by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 21, 2015 7:13 PM CUT  From left: Ewan McGregor and Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast From left: Ewan McGregor and Lumiere from Beauty and the BeastGetty Images; Disney by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 21, 2015 7:13 PM CUT Actor Ewan McGregor will play the posh candelabra Lumiere in Disney’s upcoming live-action _Beauty and the Beast._ McGregor is joining a cast that also includes Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston and Ian McKellan as Cogsworth, [The Hollywood Reporter writes](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ewan-mcgregor-play-lumiere-beauty-790480 "undefined"). This is not the first time McGregor has sung in a role—he also starred in _Moulin Rouge!_ in 2001. _Beauty and the Beast_ will be directed by Bill Condon, who also directed _The_ _Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn._ It is [produced](http://time.com/3682451/emma-watson-disney-beauty-and-the-beast/ "undefined") by Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. The film is [scheduled](http://time.com/3818523/ian-mckellen-cogsworth-beauty-beast-disney/ "undefined") for a mid-March 2017 release. \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ewan-mcgregor-play-lumiere-beauty-790480 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3830208/ewan-mcgregor-lumiere-beauty-beast/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3830208/ewan-mcgregor-lumiere-beauty-beast/"},"headline":"Ewan McGregor Will Play Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast","datePublished":"2015-04-21T19:13:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:33:35.671Z","description":"It's not the first time he's had a singing role","url":"https://time.com/3830208/ewan-mcgregor-lumiere-beauty-beast/","keywords":["movies","Beauty and the Beast"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d621dd302dae126/6987ec2c0b72e3721c6e19d6/ewan-mcgregor-lumiere.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d621dd302dae126/6987ec2c0b72e3721c6e19d6/ewan-mcgregor-lumiere.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ewan-mcgregor-lumiere","caption":"From left: Ewan McGregor and Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast","creditText":"Getty Images; Disney","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3830208/ewan-mcgregor-lumiere-beauty-beast/","name":"Ewan McGregor Will Play Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes","description":"Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. 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