You’re stranded on a lifeboat with Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Keith Allen and Irvine Welsh. DarkAnaemicI77I suppose you have to think about who’s the healthiest and has looked after their body best. I reckon Ewan would be a wee bit too chewy, and Irvine a wee bit pickled.
I’ll go for Kevin McKidd because he’s been out in LA for 20 years, eating good food. Did you really not like Zippy the West Highland terrier who played Wee Jock in Hamish Macbeth? Campbell97 I’m sure this will disappoint people, but there must have been 10 Wee Jocks.
I just don’t like working with animals because they don’t know they’re acting, so it can take them 10 takes to cross a road. The best animals I’ve ever worked with were the pigeons on The Full Monty TV show, which we had to chase. I thought: “This is never going to work.” But they just did what they were told and would fly out of their box and land on your shoulder.
I was in the Youth Opportunities Programme touring theatre company at Glasgow Arts Centre shortly after you in the early 80s and it shaped my future. How important was the experience for you – and do you think it’s even harder now for people from working-class backgrounds to get into the arts? Chorazon and EastJamMy experience was fantastic.
If I hadn’t found that place, I definitely wouldn’t be speaking to you today. It was certainly hard when I was starting off, especially because of the accent. You rarely heard a Scottish accent on TV or film, other than Sean Connery.
But things changed and Trainspotting had quite a lot to do with that, when the Scottish accent became more familiar to people. I think you see far more working-class actors in TV and film nowadays than you did back in the 80s, which is good. What was it like to look in the mirror and see John Lennon staring back at you in Yesterday?
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