Trainspotting and Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor says he was glad he took 'fake cocaine' in his new series about American designer Halston.
The star revealed the news as he spoke about his addiction problems and 21 years of sobriety.
Ewan, plays American fashion designer Halston, who struggled with his own addiction in a Netflix special.
During a chat about the show with Variety magazine he talked about being sober from alcohol for more than two decades.
Ewan said: "I didn’t realise I would end up with addiction problems myself then.
"I became sober in 2000. So now, when I’m looking at characters who are addicts, I look at it through a different lens of understanding it more.
An everyday part of my life is being sober.”
But at the same time, it’s quite an important part because it’s given me such joy and happiness and peace in a way I didn’t have before I was sober.
It’s interesting to do all those lines of coke and all those cigarettes and shots that Halston was doing and just being glad they weren’t real.
Just being happy about that, but understanding it.”
Ewan also talked about how the Calton Athletic club, a recovery group which he worked with, taught him and the cast of Trainspotting how to shoot up heroin.
He said: "They have meetings, they help each other with support and they play soccer.
We worked with those guys, and we had a drug adviser.
"We were all given the things we would need to cook up a shot of heroin, like a little cigarette lighter and a spoon and matches and some bicarb soda and pretend heroin."
And he said that the drug advisor would walk up and down the line of actors to make sure they were acting it out correctly.
Ewan became addicted to alcohol and had previously told People magazine he started off as a "happy drunk".
He explained: "Originally I was a happy drunk. But later I was miserable because it’s a depressant. I was just ashamed of myself, really."
