Sir Billy Connolly has revealed he would like to see Robert Carlyle play him in a movie based on his life.
The Big Yin said the Scots actor would be perfect to star in a film about his journey from welder on the Glasgow shipyards to world renowned comedian.
He described his fellow Glaswegian, who played psychotic hardman Begbie in the Trainspotting films, as “brilliant”.
Sir Billy, 77, also said he would like to see his Rab C Nesbitt star Tony Roper, 78, play him in his later years.
The pair worked together at Bilsland’s Bakery in Glasgow as young men and have remained close.
Asked who would he would like to see portray him on the big screen, Sir Billy said: “Robert Carlyle. He’s a Scottish actor, he’s brilliant.
“Or another Scottish actor called Tony Roper. He knows me really well. Whichever one of them wasn’t doing anything at the time.”
Sir Billy made his comments in a video interview with Castle Fine Art, the gallery that is currently showcasing his artworks.
He also joked that if neither Carlyle or Roper were available, 79-year-old American actress Raquel Welch could play him.
Speaking earlier this month at the launch of the London exhibition of his art, the comedian said he was “finished with stand-up” because Parkinson’s disease has “made my brain work differently”
He was diagnosed with the condition in 2013 and retired in 2018 but had hoped to do the odd stand-up show.
Sir Billy has moved to Florida from his previous home in New York after doctors advised him to live in a warmer climate.
He was voted the UK’s most influential stand-up act of all time in 2012.
Carlyle, 58, previously played a real-life Scot, politician John McCormick, in the 2008 film Stone of Destiny.
