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Ewen Bremner (born January 23, 1972) is a Scottish character actor. His roles have included Julien in Julien Donkey-Boy and Daniel "Spud" Murphy in Trainspotting and its 2017 sequel T2 Trainspotting. Bremner was born in Edinburgh, the son of two art teachers. He attended Davidson's Mains Primary School and Portobello High School. He originally wanted to be a circus clown, but was offered a chance at screen acting by television director Richard D. Brooks. One of his first notable roles was as a Glasgow schoolboy in Charles Gormley's Heavenly Pursuits (1986). He also played the lead in the BBC Scotland feature-length adaptation of the William McIlvanney short story "Dreaming" (1990). Bremner portrayed Spud in Danny Boyle's film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel Trainspotting, and later Mullet, a street thug in Guy Ritchie's Snatch. In the 1994 stage version of Trainspotting, Bremner played the lead role of Mark Renton, the role played by Ewan McGregor in the 1996 film. He has played supporting roles in blockbusters such as Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down. In 2017 he produced the short film No Song to Sing. He has one daughter, with actress Marcia Rose, whom he met during the filming of Skin.
I feel unclean, I feel as if I need to lay on the largest bar of soap in the world because I'm so fascinated by the world in 2022's Crimes Of The Future. Which is weird because while this is Cronenberg's first cinematic outing to hearken back to his 'body horror' roots (a genre of which he himself apparently rejects), the graphics are actually quite mild conpared to what you'd expect from that. It's also just a minor aspect in the larger functions of the film, that almost comes off like an adaptation of an incredibly dense book. The ambiance, the themes and the look of it all just cerebrally tickles me and I'm just thinking of the cast of characters we could use to deepen the lore of Crimes Of The Future.
