Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. But for god sake’s, Ewan McGregor, don’t choose that face moisturizer…not if you ever want to film a “Trainspotting” sequel, director Danny Boyle exclaimed during an interview with MTV News’ Kurt Loder.
“We won’t be able to do it for a while because the guys don’t look any different. They haven’t aged at all!” Boyle said of the oft-rumored to be right-around-the-corner “Porno,” writer Irvine Welsh’s follow-up to “Trainspotting.” “They give this impression to the public that they’re out drinking and smoking, when in fact they are in a spa somewhere in the country!”
Released in 1996, “Trainspotting” centered on a group of heroin addicts (”Rent Boy,” “Sick Boy,” “Spud” and Begbie), and their adventures in Edinburgh, Scotland. “Porno” reunites the same cast of characters nine years later — some of whom have kicked their addiction, some of whom are beaten down by life, one of whom is in prison for manslaughter — when Sick Boy, now a heavy cocaine user, decides to make a porn film financed by Renton (McGregor).
“You look to them in their twenties; they were hedonists and could literally do almost anything to themselves and get away with it,” Boyle said of the characters at the heart of “Trainspotting.” “[The idea for the sequel] was to try and look at them when they’re 40, when they hit middle age, when they hit that wall of limitation, when they find out that they are vulnerable and fragile.”
Which, of course, brings us back to where we started, since Boyle thinks his original cadre of actors don’t look anywhere near the part, not when they’re supposed to play middle-aged, former dope fiends…not with the way they take care of themselves and their bodies.
But have patience, the “Sunshine” director implored. By the time you see “Porno,” you might find that you’ve changed as well, he asserted. “It won’t be an easy sequel [but] I hope it will be an interesting one,” he said. “Because the audience, the audience who saw the film originally, [they] will have aged also.”
