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“British films always have toilet scenes, don’t they?”

director Danny Boyle asks.

TRAINSPOTTING, Ewan McGregor, 1996, (c) Miramax/courtesy Everett Collection

Credit: Miramax/courtesy Everett Collection

Renton (Ewan McGregor) takes opium suppositories to combat his heroin withdrawal.

“The set smelled really sweet delicious, really, kind of like a confectionary.

You could have licked the chocolate right off the bowl.”

“Ewan claims it was his idea to twist around.

It was great fun.”

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Renton plunges from the sewage of the stall into a glorious underwater hallucination.