“How did they get up the top?”
Ewan McGregoris looking back on a crappy experience he had in Russia.
“Then there was a bus stop that was a toilet,” the actor toldThe Guardian.
Ewan McGregor as Renton in 1996’s ‘Trainspotting’.Credit: Miramax/courtesy Everett Collection
The logistics of the pit-stop nightmare were puzzling to him.
“It filled up, and they didn’t stop pooing on it,” McGregor marveled.
“But I was thinking: ‘How did they get up the top?’
Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor on ‘Long Way Round’ in 2004.Sven Arnstein/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank
“Anyway, we were just all taking pictures of each other next to it,” McGregor said.
“That was not a comfortable toilet.”
TrainspottingdirectorDanny Boylereflected on filming the scenein a 2017 interview withEntertainment Weekly.
“The set smelled really sweet delicious, really, kind of like a confectionary.
You could have licked the chocolate right off the bowl.”
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“I did do that,” the actor said.
“I ate mine.
Charley didn’t get his down.
Charley’s came flying straight back out again.
But I got mine down.
It was all right.”
