Ewan McGregor rides across South America on electric motorbike in Apple TV+ trailer

13,000 miles 😬
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Ewan McGregor rides across South America on electric motorbike in Apple TV+ trailer
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Ewan McGregor is jumping back in the saddle.

16 years after filming Long Way Round, which saw the Star Wars actor and his best friend Charley Boorman riding on their motorbikes from London to New York, McGregor has filmed a new 11-part series for Apple TV+ called Long Way Up: A 13,000-mile journey from the southern-most point of Argentina, up through South America to LA.

The catch? This time, they're doing it on electric bikes.

The trailer above, which dropped on Tuesday, sees McGregor and Boorman riding through the heights of the Andes and the jungles of Central America, and includes an amusing moment where McGregor tells some deeply unimpressed school children that he was in Star Wars.

Long Way Up drops on Apple TV+ Sept. 18.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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