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• MY CHARACTER BEGBIE TRASPOTTG WAS CLOSET GAY, SAYS ROBERT CARLYLETRAINSPOTTING STAR ROBERT CARLYLE THKS THE PSYCHO CHARACTER HE PLAYED THE FILM IS GAY.DAILYRERDBOOKMARKSHAREENTERTAMENTBYTIM BUGLER00:00, 27 APR 2009UPDATED20:24, 1 JUL 2012BOOKMARKGET THE LATT ENTERTAMENT NEWS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR WEEKLY SHOWBIZ NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT ENTERTAMENT NEWS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR WEEKLY SHOWBIZ NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• ROBERT CARLYLE: ‘MY TRASPOTTG CHARACTER WAS GAY’
• IRVE WELSH SAYS BEGBIE WAS A REPRSED GAY

MY CHARACTER BEGBIE TRASPOTTG WAS CLOSET GAY, SAYS ROBERT CARLYLETRAINSPOTTING STAR ROBERT CARLYLE THKS THE PSYCHO CHARACTER HE PLAYED THE FILM IS GAY.DAILYRERDBOOKMARKSHAREENTERTAMENTBYTIM BUGLER00:00, 27 APR 2009UPDATED20:24, 1 JUL 2012BOOKMARKGET THE LATT ENTERTAMENT NEWS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR WEEKLY SHOWBIZ NEWSLETTERMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 GET THE LATT ENTERTAMENT NEWS SENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR WEEKLY SHOWBIZ NEWSLETTERINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

TRAINSPOTTING star Robert Carlyle thks the psycho character he played the film is GAY. Carlyle says he beme nvced hard man Francis Begbie was a closet homosexual after readg a scene which he has a bsh wh a transsexual. Carlyle said Danny Boyle, the film's director, was keen for him to achieve a "homosexual Ian Rh look".

ROBERT CARLYLE: ‘MY TRASPOTTG CHARACTER WAS GAY’

Traspottg star Robert Carlyle has announced a Bafta webse terview that he thks the character he played the film was gay spe Francis Begbie beg nsired one of fictn’s most stereotypil alpha-mal. The thor of the novel, Irve Welsh has also agreed wh Carlyle’s terpretatn and suggts that though he tend for Begbie’s sexualy to be ambiguo the book, he was most probably played as gay on screen.

“I thk the Begbie of the film is more potentially gay than the Begbie of the book, ” said Mr Welsh.

“In the book, Renton and Sick Boy ht that he’s a reprsed homosexual as a means of makg him to a ls ighteng figure and th empowerg themselv agast his vlence.

IRVE WELSH SAYS BEGBIE WAS A REPRSED GAY

It’s a standard middle-class view; the workg-class hardman is subnscly gay. Carlyle also claims that the film’s director, Danny Boyle wanted him to portray a “homosexual Ian Rh look” so he grew a motache siar to that of the Liverpool striker and drsed brightly loured Prgle jerseys and stay-prsed troers.

But Robert Carlyle, who played the character on screen, has revealed he was a reprsed homosexual, whose random acts of sickeng vlence were motivated by his fear of beg outed.

Irve Welsh, the creator of Begbie, agreed that while his sexualy was tentnally ambiguo his novel about dg addicts 1980s Edburgh, he was played as a homosexual the film. Carlyle, who played Begbie, beme nvced that he should be gay after readg a scene the script which he has an accintal liaison wh a transsexual.