Lumiere is one of the movie’s major supporting roles, a suave maitre d’ who is turned into a candelabra by the curse that falls on the prince’s castle. The character appears in a number of musical numbers and has a major solo in the "Be Our Guest" showstopper.

Bill Condon is directing the movie, which begins production in May at Shepperton Studios in London.

McGregor is on screens with the indie Last Days in the Desert and will be seen later this year starring opposite Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun.

He has sung onscreen before, notably in 2001 in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!

He is repped by UTA and United Agents.