Trainspotting

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    Ewen Bremner's Big Year: Scottish Actor Talks 'T2: Trainspotting' and 'Wonder Woman'

    It’s not like Ewen Bremner has been wasting the days away. The 45-year-old Scotsman, best known to U.S. audiences for the playing the scraggy heroine junkie Spud in Trainspotting, has been working consistently since Danny Boyle’s 1996 cult classic, with credits that include Snatch, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Match Point, and Snowpiercer. In March, he reprised the role of the down-and-out Spud in the long-awaited sequel T2: Trainspotting.

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    In Theaters This Weekend: A Tale of Two Ewan McGregors, 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'T2 Trainspotting'

    Disney naturally looks like the early contender for box office champion this weekend with their live-action retelling of the animated classic, Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the titular Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, and Ewan McGregor as everyone’s favorite anthropomorphic candlestick, Lumière. The masterful Bill Condon is in the director’s chair for the picture that has already caused controversy after it was revealed that Josh Gad will be playing a gay chara

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    Ewan McGregor Is Not So Sure About Choosing Life in New Clip from 'T2: Trainspotting' (Exclusive)

    “Choose life” became a motto for the 1996 film Trainspotting after its fast-living (and fast-running) lead character Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) championed the phrase while sprinting through the streets in Edinburgh in the movie’s iconic opening sequence.

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    Watch the 'Trainspotting' Cast Talk About Reuniting at 'Secret Meeting' to Plot Sequel 'T2' (Exclusive)

    A Trainspotting sequel had been rumored for years, but according to cast members, it wasn’t until they reunited at a secret meeting in London in 2015 that it felt like the project was truly going to happen. “There, for the first time, we were all back together again, in 20 years,” says Ewan McGregor in an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from the upcoming T2: Trainspotting. In addition to McGregor (who played Renton), the meeting included Johnny Lee Miller (Sick Boy), Ewen Bremner (Spud), Robe

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    Born Slippy: The 'Trainspotting' Soundtrack Turns 20

    You won’t find a more arresting opening scene in movie history: At the start of Danny Boyle’s caffeinated classic Trainspotting, we see Ewan McGregor’s character, Mark Renton, race down Princess street in Edinburgh, Scotland, chased by advancing security guards. Tearing down stairs and ducking into alleys, Renton seems, at once, scared, defiant, and exhilarated. Experienced music fans recognized that beat at the time as one Iggy Pop borrowed from Bo Diddley for his then nearly 20-year-old reco