Robert Carlyle has suggested a third Trainspotting film may be on the way after saying he’s been “talking about that” with producers.
Carlyle, who plays hardman Franco Begbie in 1996’s Trainspotting, as well as its soon-to-be-released sequel T2 Trainspotting, was speaking to reporters before T2’s premiere in Edinburgh. “We’ve been talking about that, I am up for doing it,” he said. “So maybe we ain’t seen the end of Begbie just yet.”
T2 is based on Porno, the 2002 novel that Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh conceived as a sequel to his 1993 original; in 2016 Welsh published The Blade Artist, which focuses on an older Begbie, who has reinvented himself as a sculptor and is living in California with a new family.
Carlyle said: “[T2] is the first time you see maybe there is another side to this guy ... There is something quite emotional about that. He’s capable of feeling something more than just rage, so I am pleased that that element of Begbie has been shown.
“And maybe that sets up another film in fact, because Irvine Welsh has written The Blade Artist.”
