Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he undergoes a remarkable  | dG1fWFE4STV1Z3Zvclk

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00:00So we're here tonight to talk about Irvine's new book, his 13th novel and his 17th work of fiction.

00:07On top of that, he's now a DJ, has his work adapted for radio, TV, film and theatre.

00:14Welsh has produced many imitators, but few equals, and he has outlasted them all.

00:21I mean, Trainspotting's not my best book, but it's the one I'll be remembered by.

00:25I mean, it's like...

00:25I never liked it.

00:26The characters that you create are all different aspects of you.

00:31You got off heroin, you got off all the shit, but did the writing solve that? Are you happy now?

00:35I'm worried that I'm morphing into one of these writers that I used to detest.

00:40And you are in.

00:46He said when we embarked on this great adventure together that lots of laughter was essential in the relationship.

00:56I always saw life as a big canvas it unfolds, and I don't think you should be limited to any one place.

01:09Life is a dynamic rather than a static process.

01:12When you're young, you feel that life is trying to confine you in some ways.

01:19Increasingly, life seems fractured.

01:23I like to challenge and annoy and disturb and irritate myself in a ring.

01:28I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be.

01:38You compromise more when you get older. It's not always a good thing.

01:42We are all connected to a greater force.

01:46There's different realities contained within us all.

01:48And writing is a way of finding some of these different realities.