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October 10, 2006
C***spotting: Irvine Welsh lingos pics and profanity
At Bookslut, Tony DuShane talks movies, guns and naughty words with Irvine Welsh as he tub-thumps "The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs": "What did it feel like when you saw ["Trainspotting"] adapted for the big screen?" Welsh: "It was quite a strange feeling. I mean, I’d seen it on stage first, but to see it in the cinema was kind of a weird thing. I was in the film myself. I had a part in it, so I was on set most of the time when it was being filmed, but I purposely tried not to look at any of the rushes. I just wanted to see it in the cinema, and at the cinema where it was playing, 
I invited some friends, people that were quite critical... people who were quite attached to the book and would be quite gobby if they didn’t like the film. But they were all blown away and all really exhilarated by it. It was a great feeling for me to see it come off like that. It could’ve been a shit film. It could’ve been done badly. But I don’t think that Danny Boyle would make a mess of it because he’s such a great director. I mean at that time he’d just done Shallow Grave so he was on fire, like. I was actually surprised at how strong the film was and how great the characters were. It captured the spirit of the whole thing, yeah?" Mr. DuShane asks after a passage from page 250 of the new book: "'It’s more offensive to use the word cunt, than to buy a handgun...' Would you like to comment on that?" Welsh: "Yeah, it’s weird, you know, you can buy a handgun, but when you go down to the South and there’s people walking around in restaurants with handguns in their holsters and stuff like that, and I think, well, if I get drunk, I don’t want to bump into this guy or fall across him. This is crazy, this is absolutely crazy. Yet if you say the word, “cunt,” you’re going to be ostracized, and you think, why is there this big taboo with words? Why not taboo on handguns? That would make more sense. More people would be alive, you know what I mean. I’ve called a few people cunts and none of them have died. But if I shot them with a handgun, yeah, different thing."
Posted by Ray Pride at October 10, 2006 12:22 PM
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