For those interested in accents, while most Singaporeans (or for that matter, anyone outside Scotland) can't tell the difference, there are multiple Scottish accents (every region in Scotland has its own accent) within the movie, with each actor using his own original Scottish accent, although the characters were all supposed to have only one same accent. Not that anyone outside Scotland would notice or care.
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Alex Johnston, lives in Scotland (2009-present)
Answered Jan 11
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Even Scottish actors can’t always do convincing Scottish accents. The problem is that there are a lot of Scottish accents, and they vary in ways that are very subtle and which people from outside Scotland are not attuned to.
My ex-wife, who grew up in Edinburgh, is perpetually amused by Ewan McGregor’s performance in Trainspotting because although McGregor’s character, Renton, is supposed to be from the working-class housing estates on Edinburgh’s western edge, he has McGregor’s own middle-class Crieff accent. (Crieff is fifty miles away.)
Robert Carlyle in the same film sounds like he’s from Glasgow, which is where Robert Carlyle is actually from, as does Kelly Macdonald, who is also from Glasgow. Of the main cast, only Ewen Bremner as Spud actually has an Edinburgh accent, but many people find him incomprehensible.
Having said all that, the gold star for Trainspotting goes to Jonny Lee Miller, the only one of the main cast who wasn’t actually Scottish. Leaving aside the overall quality of his performance (which was as good as everyone else), in accent terms he didn’t make a total fool of himself. He still doesn’t sound like he’s from anywhere in particular, though.
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