HARDMAN actor Cameron Jack has revealed how playing psycho Begbie in the stage version of Trainspotting SAVED him from a life of crime. The Scot took the role made famous by Robert Carlyle alongside a ...

FEARS that the sequel to Trainspotting might be a mistake eased yesterday when Begbie was spotted in the same socks and shoes. Robert Carlyle’s notorious hardman was spotted on the set of T2 in ...

Robert Carlyle has revealed the struggles he faced upon playing psychotic hardman Francis Begbie, but admits the role was a blessing. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you ...

He plays the son of Begbie - one of Scotland’s most notorious movie hardmen characters - in Trainspotting sequel T2. And teen actor Scot Greenan admits he was intimidated when Robert Carlyle got into ...

Robert Carlyle kept away from his family in Glasgow while filming T2 Trainspotting because he was bringing his psycho character Begbie home with him. Carlyle, originally from Maryhill, told Time Out ...

Dunno if you’ve heard, but ‘T2 Trainspotting‘, the belated sequel to Irvine Welsh’s classic 1996 black comedy about a bunch of charismatic if utterly feckless heroin addicts in Edinburgh, is out now.

At the end of Trainspotting, the characters’ lives seemed mapped out until death – apart from Mark Renton, who gave fate and his friends the last-minute slip by stealing the proceeds of a drug deal ...

Robert Carlyle kept away from his family in Glasgow while filming T2 Trainspotting because he was bringing his psycho character Begbie home with him. Carlyle, originally from Maryhill, told Time Out ...