Ewan McGregor explains why he 'loves' Trainspotting
Ewan McGregor has reflected on the experience of watching Trainspotting.
Ewan McGregor thinks Trainspotting hasn't "lost any of its vitality".
The 55-year-old actor starred alongside the likes of Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald in Trainspotting, the 1996 drama film directed by Danny Boyle, and Ewan has revealed that he remains proud of the movie because it's proven to be timeless.
Speaking about the movie's 30th anniversary, Ewan told People: "It was shown somewhere, and I sat in and watched it, and I saw it on the big screen. I hadn't seen it for years and years and years. And I wrote to Danny [Boyle] afterwards, and I'm not in touch with Danny all the time, so it was a rare occasion, but I wrote to him just to say how amazing a film it was."
Ewan admitted to being "blown away by how good a movie it is".
He reflected: "A lot of things that I would've made 30 years ago or 25 years ago or 20 years ago, they might have dated, or what was thought relevant then might not be relevant now in terms of cinema technique, but Trainspotting felt like it felt then.
"It doesn't feel like it's lost any of its vitality at all."
Ewan "loved" the experience of rewatching Trainspotting.
The actor - who played Mark Renton, an unemployed drug addict, in the movie - said: "I think the characters are so amazing, and there's something just so right about all of it. The music, the words, the cast, Brian [Tufano]'s shots. Danny's an artist, he's trying to find the story.
"He goes about it in a way that's almost lost now, in terms of having the actors explore a scene, and then feeling the scene, and then deciding how he was going to shoot that."
Ewan also feels proud that such a quintessentially British movie became a global success.
He said: "It was such a massive moment in time in Britain. What was nice was that it was an international success. We didn't make it to pander to America. We made it as a British film and really a Scottish film.
"We didn't shy away from the accents, or the violence, or the character, the humour that is so Scottish, so British — so Scottish really — the humour in it."
