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Actor Kevin Mckidd, overlooked in Trainspotting, he's hoping more from Small Faces.
"I think it's gonna become one of
those archetypal student posters - up there with Bob Marley,"
says Scots actor Kevin McKidd of the stunning orange-black-and-white
advert for Trainspotting. McKidd, who plays Tommy("the
nice bloke who dies") in the film, is still kicking himself:
before he found out about the poster photo shoot he had booked
a holiday to Tunisia, and thus missed being part of the trendiest
advertising image of the year.
Probable as a result, McKidd was completely
ignored by the press for Trainspotting, our meeting is
only his second ever interview. But the 22-year-old is hoping
to boost his profile with the release this month of what was
his feature-film debut, Gillies MacKinnon's Small Faces,
the tale of three brothers growing up in the gang-torn Glasgow
of 1968, McKidd plays the brothers' enemy, a brutal gang leader
named "Malky" - Glaswegian slang for a knife or the
slash wound made by a knife.
The son of a secretary and a water inspector,
McKidd gave gangs a wide berth when he was growing up - "It
was meant to be involved with what football team you supported
but it was just a poor excuse to go out and beat people up."
He first developed a taste for acting following a seminal moment
with E.T. aged nine, "I thought Elliott was really
cool to be friends with an alien," laughs McKidd.
After graduating from Glasgow's St Margaret's
drama school, McKidd was headhunted by top agents International
Creative Management. "At first I thought it was some computer
company," he says. "But all the other actors in the
play I was in were like, 'Oh my god - ICM!'"
McKidd will be next seen opposite Jon Bon
Jovi in John Duigan's The Leading Man. Says the actor
of his legendary co-star: "He ambled up to me in a scene
where I was standing at the bar in the full kilt regalia and
said, 'Wow, man, I really loved your movie Trainspotting.'
It was a very surreal moment: a year ago I never could have imagined
I would be complimented by a rock god."
Premiere May 1996 Louis Brealey
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