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The Next Big Mac? ...various sources

Kevin is hotly tipped as the next Mac from the "Britpack" as the media called the talented British young actors.

Hollywood may have only the dimmest understanding of devolution but it knows all about the Mac Pack, the talented crew of young Scottish actors whose shortened vowels and glottal stops are as sought after in Los Angeles as a dram at a Highland wake. Ewan Mc-Gregor, Robert Carlyle, John Hannah and Robbie Coltrane have been hotter properties than a Dounreay beach hut for some time. Now the second division - Douglas Henshall, Alan Cumming, Dougray Scott, Kevin McKidd and Joe McFadden - are jostling for position as the next big Mac...
Sunday Times 9 January 2000

Another mention of Kevin being the next big Mac.

Kevin McKidd, 26, first came to attention in "Small Faces" and "Trainspotting," both set in his native Scotland, and appeared last year in the American director Rose Troche's "Bedrooms and Hallways," playing a bisexual Londoner. In an interview, McKidd, who made his American stage debut last year at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the Racine play "Britannicus," agreed with Merchant: "You have to go back to the theater just to check in." In the theater, he added, you can get feedback: "You want to feel what the audience is feeling. If you don't, you start to lose a bit of the skill." McKidd's most recent stage appearance, last fall, was in a London revival of " 'Tis Pity She's a Whore," the bloodthirsty Jacobean drama by John Ford...
New York Times 14 May 2000

Some more excerpts...

He's not as instantly recognisable as McGregor or Carlyle but Kevin McKidd is a stalwart of the Scotpack. He was excellent as Malky Johnson in Small Faces - a film sadly lost in the wake of Trainspotting (in which McKidd also starred) - and was acclaimed for his role as Johnny in one of The Acid House stories. He's also good as a confused homosexual in Rose Troche's Bedrooms and Hallways, and extremely good as an operetta singer in Mike Leigh's Gilbert and Sullivan drama, Topsy-Turvy.
Film Unlimited

Some more excerpts...

...Kevin McKidd has gone on to a series of major roles, most recently in Bedrooms And Hallways and in Mike Leigh's so-far-untitled Gilbert and Sullivan film...

...McKidd and Bremner were reunited in another Irvine Welsh project, The Acid House...

...Small Faces director Gillies MacKinnon returned to Scotland for Regeneration, whose cast included McKidd, Miller and Dougray Scott....

an article about well-known and upcoming Scottish actors on Film Unlimited 23 April 1999

 

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