Is there going to be a sequel to Trainspotting?
We’ve got a very, very strong idea for it—looking at those characters again when they hit middle age. When you first saw them they were hedonists—abusing and taking their bodies to the absolute limit of what they can tolerate. What gives our idea legs is that we’re going to wait until the [original] actors are in their 40s and middle-aged themselves, and the people who loved the film will have encountered that mark as well in their own lives. We want to do the sequel with all the same actors again, but it will depend on how they all feel about it when they will have hit middle age. They still basically look the same as they did when we made the film! They take great care of themselves, you see— They’d have you believe that they’re wild, wild men, but actually, I always say they’re tucked up in bed at 10 o’clock at night with a moisturizer on. Were you raised Catholic? Yeah. I had a very strict Catholic education at a Christian brotherhood school called the Salesian School. And I was de
