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Article: Trainspotting's engine that could. (Ewan McGregor)(includes related article on the soundtrack of the movie 'Trainspotting')
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- August 1, 1996
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Introducing Ewan McGregor, the Scottish actor whose sly and dreamy style keeps eyes glued to this summer's most energized and arresting movie
As a child growing up in a small Scottish town, Ewan McGregor wanted to be everything that his actor uncle, Denis Lawson, was: someone different from the rest of the crowd. McGregor's performances in two of the most daring films of the '90s - the sardonic thriller Shallow Grave and the Brit movie-of-the-moment Trainspotting - have now turned that aspiration into a reality. Among a glut of young Hollywood-bound U.K. actors, McGregor has singled himself out with his instinctive gift for ambivalence - an ability to tiptoe across ...