00:00These wee guys just felt like wee guys that I grew up with.
00:05I grew up in a Scottish council estate and I was like here's a story about people from a Scottish
00:09council estate.
00:09How many times you get to watch a film that is adventurous and fun and feels like a movie rather
00:15than a film.
00:16I don't know if that's a semantic discrepancy that anybody can get behind but there are films and there are
00:21movies
00:22and I don't see many movies set in Scottish council estates and this felt like a movie about Scottish council
00:27people, council estate people.
00:29And I think Scottish people will enjoy watching these particular Scottish people examined.
00:34But it is also about something that Scottish people have experienced, sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes.
00:41Which I have experienced as well, which is that we don't want your Scottishness, thank you very much.
00:46And it is really fun, it's really interesting, it's kind of like reductive and it's great, can you do an
00:53accent?
00:53Can you change who you are? Which is what I've experienced lots in my career.
00:57Which is fine, because I'm an actor, I'm meant to play other people.
01:02And somebody not being able to understand my accent, that's totally fine.
01:06That's not their fault, that's just what it is. I'm an exotic, strange sound to their ears.
01:12But the minute that they start to go like, oh my god, it's like porridge, or like cabers, or like
01:18kilts, or like Braveheart, that's not okay.
01:21And that's what happens to a lot of Scottish people. And what happens when that happens is you're reduced to
01:27just a noise.
01:27There are no words!
01:28There are no words.
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