Trainspotting gay

My character Begbie in Trainspotting was closet gay, says Robert Carlyle

TRAINSPOTTING star Robert Carlyle thinks the psycho character he played in the film is GAY.

13:03, 01 Jul 2012Updated 20:24, 01 Jul 2012

TRAINSPOTTING star Robert Carlyle thinks the psycho character he played in the film is GAY.

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Carlyle says he became convinced hard guy Francis Begbie was a closet queer after reading a scene in which he has a brush with a transsexual.

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And he said Begbie's random acts of sickening abuse were motivated by a "fear of being outed".

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In a Bafta website interview, Carlyle, 47, said: "He picks up the transsexual in the nightclub and there's the scene in the automobile where he puts his hands between the trousers and finds out it's the real deal.

"Now why doesn't he just kill this person? He kills everybody else, why doesn't he carry out that? He gets frightened of it and backs away."

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Begbie, is one of the most terrifying characters ever seen on screen. In the film, he attacks an American tourist, bludgeons an innocent bystander with a pool cue and smashes a glass into a fellow drinker's face.

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Anonymous asked:

What's your headcanon(s) for each of the skagboys sexuality-wise?

thx for asking!! please feel free to share yours..

*rubs hands together* there’s a few mods here and we all kinda collectively agree on:

renton is highly fluid in every form of skagboy media!! like, even in the books it’s implied he’s into nonbinary folks. that whole line about being” heterosexual by default, not by decision” and it’s “who you fancy” in terms of aesthetics was p telling of where his mind is at. he’s had sexual experiences with males also!!!

begbie is a canonically “repressed homosexual” and that’s how carlyle was playing him. irvine welsh gave him the a-ok on that movie-wise,, and we agree on that end that he is gay. he does get married to a lady ,so it’s unfortunate that he was too afraid to rly address his sexuality.. i ponder that’d kind of a theme in ‘blade artist’ + franco’s goat a Thing fir mark tbh.

sick boy is bisexual. honestly you can’t tell me that he wasn’t in love with 007. also canonically “experimental” and said he&rsquo

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