For a fleeting moment after Trainspotting came out, Ewan McGregor felt like a rock star.It was not his first significant project; it was not even his first film with director Danny Boyle. And he was, in his words, fairly arrogant and cocksure at the time. But that kinetic film about four heroin addicts in late-1980s Scotland was and remains defining – in his career, in the culture and in his understanding of what true artistic satisfaction can feel like.“It’s very much in that early part of my career, and of course, even today, probably the most important piece of work that I was involved in, just because it had such a massive effect on my life. Not only because of what it did, but because of how it felt to make,” McGregor says.“It set the bar unknowingly high because it’s been quite hard to match ever since.”Ewan McGregor in a still from Trainspotting. Photo: Sony Pictures Classics via APThe 4K digital restoration is currently on show at cinemas in North America to mark its 30th anniversary.
As Trainspotting turns 30, Ewan McGregor and Danny Boyle on its massive impact
Trainspotting star McGregor and director Boyle share how the 1996 film about Scottish heroin addicts still resonates three decades on.
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