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Due to the skimpy budget, most scenes had to be shot in just one take.
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The last scene with Spud getting the money in the locker is almost identical to a scene in Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Even the circumstances behind the scenes are very similar.
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First feature film of Kevin McKidd.
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Irvine Welsh: as Mikey Forrester, Renton's heroin dealer.
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Of the main cast, only Jonny Lee Miller is not a Scot.
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Ewan McGregor shaved his head and lost 2 stone (28 lbs - 12.7 kg) for the film.
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Shirley Henderson and Kelly Macdonald went on to star as ghosts in the Harry Potter films. Henderson played Moaning Myrtle; MacDonald played Helena Ravenclaw.
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Robert Carlyle said that he was very amused by the appeal of his Begbie character, with videos popping up on the internet of people reenacting entire scenes, especially the bar fight. By his own admission, some people performed the scene better than he himself had done.
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Renton has ginger hair in the book, to the point where he is described as resembling Alex McLeish. He has a shaved head in the film.
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In the book, Mark Renton has an older brother named Billy who is a soldier in the British Army. In real life, Ewan McGregor has an older brother in the RAF.
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When Renton overdoses at Mother Superior's, he seemingly sinks several feet into the carpet. This effect was created by a bit of low-budget ingenuity: The crew simply slipped Ewan McGregor through a platform with a trap door.
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Various options were considered to make the film more intelligible for American audiences. Subtitles were ruled out as they would spoil the effect of using them in the disco scene. Instead, the actors re-recorded the first 20 minutes of dialog, softening their accents to atune American ears to the Scottish dialect.
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Kevin McKidd is notably missing from the movie poster depicting the main characters, as he was on a holiday during the promotional photo shoot. Ironically, his character Tommy is also the only one of the main cast to die.
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Christopher Eccleston was offered the role of Begbie, because he resembled how Danny Boyle imagined the character in the book.
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In 2009, Robert Carlyle, who played Begbie, told a BAFTA interviewer that he played Begbie as a closeted gay man whose outbursts of violence were due to his "fear of being outed". Irvine Welsh, who wrote the movie's source novel, confirmed that he wrote the Begbie of the book to have an ambiguous sexuality, and agreed with Carlyle's interpretation of the film's version of the character.
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Danny Boyle says that the reason Oasis didn't want to contribute to the soundtrack was because they didn't want their music used in a movie about trainspotters. He was however delighted that the band were at the movie's premiere party because of the huge publicity it generated.
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John Hodge: store security officer in pursuit of an unruly pair in the opening scene.
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Jonny Lee Miller was cast on the strength of his performance in Hackers (1995) and his ability to do an uncanny Sean Connery accent.
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Although set in Edinburgh, most interiors, and some of the exteriors, were shot in Glasgow. A notable exception is the chase down Princes Street.
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