Before ‘Trainspotting,’ Ewan McGregor and Danny Boyle Created This Shocking Debut You Probably Haven’t Seen
Shallow Grave was essentially Ewan McGregor's first role, and one of his first collaborations with Danny Boyle.
Back in 1994, very few people knew a 23-year-old actor named Ewan McGregor or director Danny Boyle, an eventual Oscar-winning filmmaker. For many, it wouldn't be until the duo's 1996 look at Scottish drug culture, Trainspotting, before the collaborators started making waves and getting attention. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, that movie started getting a lot of attention, at which point, more people went back and looked at the duo's previous collaboration, the darkly comic crime-thriller, Shallow Grave. Co-starring Christopher Eccleston, who would later be cast as the ninth Doctor on the long-running BBC sci-fi series, Doctor Who, and Kerry Fox, Shallow Grave showed the early talent on display that would lead to decades of great filmmaking.
