LISTEN: Robert Carlyle on filming Trainspotting 2 next year

The Scots star actor told us about plans for the sequel being filmed next year - 20 years on from the original.

Published 30th Nov 2015

Robert Carlyle says the long-awaited sequel to Trainspotting is on track to be released next year.

He's been telling Clyde News about how "emotional" he felt reading the script almost 20 years after the original came out.

Our reporter Lizzie Parker caught up with the actor who is currently in Vancouver filming hit US TV series Once Upon a Time:

He said: "I've never ever seen anything like it. I've never known anything like it where you have a film which has a sequel 20 years after the original with all the same cast.

"As far as I know every single person who was in the original film is going to be back - apart from the ones who are dead in some capacity. So I'm looking forward to shooting it - hopefully in May and June next year."

He also spoke about his directorial debut The Legend of Barney Thomson, winning a Scottish BAFTA and why he chose to film in the East End of Glasgow including the iconic Barrowlands Ballroom.