Garry Fraser survived the drugs and violence of an Edinburgh housing estate, so he knew exactly how to portray the brutal landscape in the movie
In 1996, Trainspotting, Danny Boyle’s seminal junkie classic, was in cinemas and Garry Fraser was back home, living the life of the characters it showed. In fact, he was outdoing them: Fraser, then 19, was so immersed in crime and so far gone on skag, he felt the film was a bit tame.
“After 20 years, I appreciate it more,” he says. “Back then, I was closed-minded. We weren’t injecting, we weren’t trainspotters and I didn’t think it represented my culture. I was also disappointed a lot of it was shot in Glasgow …”
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