Kevin McKidd On Why He Doesn't Feature On The Iconic Trainspotting Poster

As if playing the doomed Tommy wasn't depressing enough...

There’s so much about Trainspotting that’s memorable. The opening monologue, the voyage around the u-bend, the cold turkey sequence, the stuff about it being shite to be Scottish – Danny Boyle’s tale of Edinburgh heroin junkies is packed with unforgettable movie moments.

Equally memorable was the promotional poster campaign. The black-and-white portraits, the orange typeface, the railway station-mimicking taglines – the images would find a place in the country’s collective conscience as well as upon the walls of students everywhere from St Andrews to Exeter.

Look at the images again, however, and you might notice something. For while Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Kelly Macdonald and Robert Carlyle are all present and correct, where, oh where is Kevin McKidd?