Tag: Trainspotting
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Speed Is Expensive review – engaging homage to motorcycle legend Philip Vincent
Ewan McGregor narrates an orderly and perhaps too polite profile of the engineer and inventor behind some of the world’s finest motorbikesSpeed is expensive, as Ewan McGregor did not say in Trainspotting. The line was uttered by Philip Vincent, a Harrow-educated motorbike designer who made some of the world’s fastest – and priciest – motorbikes…
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Peaky Blinders Had A Super Fan In David Bowie
Legendary pop star David Bowie was a man of eclectic pop culture tastes. The artist formerly known as Ziggy Stardust and The Thin White Duke was famous for his mysterious, otherworldly personas, but he wasn’t actually all mystery all the time. Bowie passed away in 2016, but fans can still excavate lists of his personal…
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Ewan McGregor Admits He Used to Show His Kids the Toilet Scene From ‘Trainspotting’: ‘Just for a Laugh’
Forget “Star Wars” – Ewan McGregor preferred to show his kids another one of his films.“I wasn’t there when [my daughter] Clara watched ‘Trainspotting’ for the first time. But I did used to show my kids ‘the toilet scene.’ Just for a laugh. It’s a unique situation, perhaps, for a father to be able to…
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Ewan McGregor Showed His Kids the ‘Trainspotting’ Bathroom Scene ‘Just for a Laugh’
Many great actors have filmed provocative scenes that they’d rather their families didn’t watch, but Ewan McGregor was thrilled to show his children the grossest scene of his career.Addressing press at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival (via Variety), the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” star opened up about the joys of introducing his kids to his filmography. He…
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‘Choose drugs?’ 30 years after he wrote Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh says life is tougher now
The book was a stark warning about heroin use. But its author believes the message has changedIt was meant to be a warning against the excesses of heroin use, according to its author. A no-holds-barred, gritty – albeit often comic – portrait of the travails of a disparate group of misfits navigating Edinburgh’s dark, drug-riddled…
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Ewan McGregor, Alicia Vikander to Be Honored at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Scottish actor Ewan McGregor and Swedish actor Alicia Vikander will be honored at the 57th Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where they will receive the President’s Award, and present their latest films. The festival will open with “Firebrand,” in which Vikander has the leading role of Katherine Parr. McGregor will present “You Sing Loud, I Sing…
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Renowned UK cinematographer Brian Tufano dies aged 83
Tufano’s credits include the seminal UK films ‘Trainspotting’, ‘Shallow Grave’ and ‘Billy Elliot’.Brian Tufano, a legendary UK cinematographer whose works included Trainspotting and Billy Elliot, has died.His career spanned over five decades, during which he nurtured the talents of numerous debut directors and was at the forefront of the boom of UK filmmaking of the…
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Ewan McGregor Should Always Play Writers
Few actors working today have had quite as interesting of a track record as Ewan McGregor. Once an indie darling of Shallow Grave and Trainspotting fame, McGregor became one of the de facto faces of the modern Star Wars franchise thanks to his debut as Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Phantom Menace. While McGregor has certainly…
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Ewan McGregor Thought He Was Too ‘Urban Grunge’ for ‘Star Wars’ After ‘Trainspotting’
Ewan McGregor almost passed on the “Star Wars” prequels due to his “grunge” persona in British indie cinema.During the 1990s, after McGregor’s success with Danny Boyle’s “Trainspotting” in 1996, McGregor second-guessed signing on to “Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.” McGregor portrayed the younger version of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the 1999 trilogy, a role…
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Robert Carlyle Says ‘Trainspotting’ Spinoff Series Focused On Begbie In The Works
Danny Boyle’s “Trainspotting” was based on the provocative novel by Scottish author Irvine Welsh, which chronicled a group of young Scots navigating heroin addiction and paying for it any way they can. A direct sequel, “T2: Trainspotting,” was released in 2017, which Boyle again directed, an adaptation of Welsh’s novel “Porno.”Read More: Danny Boyle To…