7 Facts You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Trainspotting (1996) 1) Trainspotting was a play before it turned into a movie! 2) To play skinny heroin addict Renton (Ewan McGregor) gave up alcohol and dairy for two months! 3) The famous toilet scene, according to the Brian Tufano “Was quite easy to shoot, once you’ve been inventive about it. We ended up cutting a toilet in half and putting a wooden chute behind it. Then, using an art technique called Trompe l'oeil, and the right positioning of the toilet, we made it look like Ewan was going down the toilet.“ 4) The scene where Renton runs over the car that lasts only 5 seconds was shot 20 times! 5) McGregor considers Trainspotting to be his most important film, even bigger than "Star Wars”! 6) The sex scene between Ewan McGregor and Kelly Macdonald had to be trimmed for the American release by a few seconds. 7) The writing on the wall of the Volcano Nightclub (where Renton meets Diane) is the same as that in the Moloko bar in Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” a movie Boyle encouraged the cast to watch before filming.













