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New Television Drama has Starring
Role for Elgin Born Actor
HAZEL LAWSON
An ELGIN-BORN film actor is to
star in a new television drama penned by Bafta award-winning
writer Donna Franceschild.
Kevin McKidd, 29, star of Trainspotting
and Glasgow gang film Small Faces, will appear in the new BBC
drama The Key, which charts the life of Glasgow woman Mary Corrigan
and follows her fortunes and that of her family over three generations.
Mr McKidd will play the part of
Duncan, a young trade unionist, alongside actors Ken Stott,
John Sessions, Dawn Steel and Ronni Ancona.
The Key looks back at the political
and social history of the 20th century.
It will include the Bloody Friday
incident in 1919 when thousands of workers demonstrating for
a 40-hour week were attacked by mounted police.
A combination of reconstruction
and archive film will be used to transport viewers back in time.
Ms Franceschild said: "We
tend to forget that so much we take for granted - votes for
women, the abolition of child labour, health and safety legislation
at work - were fought and hard won."
Filming for the drama, scheduled
for screening in the early part of next year, will get under
way on Sunday in Glasgow.
The shoot will last for nine weeks.
Sue Austin, the show's producer,
said: "This is a wonderfully crafted story which, through
the lives of an ordinary family, charts the rise of the trade
unionist movement in the early part of the twentieth century,
the destruction of the unions in the 1980s and the birth of
New Labour in the 1990s.
"We are delighted to have
such a high-calibre cast on board who will do these emotionally-charged
characters justice."
Mr McKidd's mother Kath still lives
in Elgin.
She said: "He is going to
be working on Tomb Raider II with Angelina Jolie at the end
of October.
"He is really very busy at
the moment and is having to turn some work things.
He first caught the acting bug
when he was young, taking part in school productions and joining
Moray Youth Theatre.
Mr McKidd is patron of Elgin-based
drama group Out of the Darkness Theatre Company, where Kath
is an administrator.
The Key has been produced by Little
Bird in association with Making Waves, for BBC Scotland.
Press
and Journal 27 September 2002
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