Mcgregor's Risky Business
August, 2005
Trainspotting (1996) Role: A pissed-off, hip junkie trying to kick the habit. Risk: A succession of surreal scenes of low-lifes shooting up and vomiting--and of McGregor plunging his head down a filthy toilet--could have plunged his career into the toilet, too. Reward: McGregor makes addiction seem hipper than mindless conformity; critics and audiences saw him as a new symbol of cool.The Pillow Book (1996) Role: A bisexual Brit who is the main squeeze of a book publisher (male) and a Japanese wr...
