Ewan McGregor, por un momento fugaz después del estreno de Trainspotting, se sintió como una estrella de rock. No era su primer proyecto importante; ni siquiera era su primera película con el director Danny Boyle. Y, según sus propias palabras, en ese entonces era bastante arrogante y seguro de sí mismo. Pero esa película vertiginosa sobre cuatro adictos a la heroína en la Escocia de finales de los años ochenta fue —y, treinta años después, sigue siendo— definitoria: en su carrera, en la cultura y en su comprensión de lo que puede significar la verdadera satisfacción artística.

“Es muy parte de esa etapa temprana de mi carrera y, por supuesto, incluso hoy, probablemente la obra más importante en la que participé, simplemente porque tuvo un efecto enorme en mi vida. No solo por lo que logró, sino por cómo se sintió hacerla”, dice McGregor. “Puso el listón muy alto sin saberlo, porque desde entonces ha sido difícil igualarlo”.

Tanto McGregor como Boyle sienten cierta nostalgia por aquella época y por lo que crearon, justo antes del relanzamiento por el 30.º aniversario. A partir del viernes, una restauración digital en 4K estará en las salas de Estados Unidos y Europa. Aunque Trainspotting fue muy representativa de su momento, con su banda sonora britpop, el realismo de la era Thatcher, su tono de comedia negra y su aguda mezcla de euforia y tragedia, también ha resistido el paso del tiempo.

“Se te acercan chicos de 17 años que dicen que recién la vieron”, contó Boyle. “Podría ser su abuelo… y aun así les habla”.

Danny Boyle era muy solicitado tras Tumbas al ras de la tierra, una comedia negra de 1994 sobre compañeros de piso en Edimburgo protagonizada por McGregor, y desde Hollywood lo llamaban. Literalmente. Sharon Stone, en el auge de su fama, lo llamó directamente para proponerle hacer una película juntos. Pero él tenía la vista puesta en la primera novela de Irvine Welsh, y volvió a trabajar con el guionista John Hodge y el productor Andrew Macdonald.

El presupuesto sería pequeño, 1,5 millones de libras (unos 1,9 millones de dólares), y el rodaje sería rápido y local. No sabían lo que no sabían: Boyle recuerda haberle preguntado a su director de fotografía, el fallecido Brian Tufano, si podían usar una cámara de sonda anal para la escena del “peor baño de Escocia”. “Recuerdo que me dijo: ‘Bueno, Danny, sí, puedes conseguir eso. Pero no sé cómo se lo tomarán Ewan, su familia y su agente’”, relató Boyle entre risas. “Él moderaba mi manera extrema de abordar este material”.

Y de alguna manera, todo funcionó, impulsado por la energía juvenil, algo de arrogancia y un compromiso apasionado con la historia. “Hubiera sido un desastre si se hubiera hecho de otra forma”.

“Trainspotting tenía que hacerse así”, reflexiona McGregor, que tenía 23 años en ese momento. “Hubiera sido un desastre si se hubiera hecho de otra forma”. Para él, parte de la vitalidad venía del hecho de que rodaban en celuloide; el dinero pasaba por la cámara en cada toma. “Ahora rodamos en estas tarjetas y ya no importa”, cuenta McGregor. “Ya no existe ese ritmo natural en el cine como antes. Pienso en Tumbas al ras de la tierra y Trainspotting y parece casi un trabajo diferente”. Boyle también ha buscado esa inocencia desde entonces. Dice que quizás estuvo cerca en su próxima película, Ink, con Jack O’Connell.

“Era liberador no tener suficiente dinero, porque no tenías la limitación de pensar: eso será demasiado extremo para el estudio o para el alcance de público que se espera”, explica Boyle. “Podías hacerlo de modo que, si no funcionaba, simplemente te retirabas cabizbajo y llamabas a Sharon Stone para decirle: ‘Me equivoqué’”.

Como toda película sobre drogas, hubo polémica en su estreno. El candidato presidencial estadounidense Bob Dole incluso la denunció, sin haberla visto, por supuestamente romantizar la heroína durante su campaña. Pero la película formaba parte de la conversación —y tenía un grupo envidiable de seguidores, incluidos Jarvis Cocker, de Pulp, y Damon Albarn, de Blur, quienes aportaron canciones para la banda sonora.

Después del éxito de Trainspotting, la vida de Ewan McGregor cambió profundamente. En Londres, según relata, “fue una locura”. Compartía piso con su coprotagonista Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law y Sean Pertwee. Cuando salían a clubes nocturnos, se sentían como estrellas de rock. “Había una energía real alrededor”, cuenta el actor.

“Éramos parte de esa movida… Blur, Oasis, Pulp, The Verve y toda esa música increíble que surgía entonces. Nosotros éramos como la versión cinematográfica, supongo, porque Danny sabía lo que hacía con la banda sonora y porque la novela era enorme y actual y… Tal vez porque era nuestra. Era británica y no intentaba agradar a Estados Unidos. No la hicimos para gustar en Estados Unidos”.

Boyle espera que el público se anime a ver Trainspotting en el cine, ya sea para revivirla o por primera vez. Dice que fue hecha con un amor absoluto por el cine. “Le debe mucho a Buenos muchachos, que también transmite esa sensación de: estás aquí para dejarte sacudir por una experiencia”, afirma. “Ya sabes, nos diste tu dinero y tu tiempo para estar aquí durante 90 minutos, dos horas, lo que sea, y prometemos, prometemos darte todo lo que podamos”.

Fuente: AP

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BLUE HILL, Maine — He’s been facing one of the roughest stretches of his bid for the U.S. Senate, but Graham Platner on Tuesday captured the Democratic Party’s Senate nomination.

Platner, a military combat veteran and oyster farmer who is backed by progressive champions Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Rep. Ro Khanna of California, defeated two longshot rivals in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary, the Associated Press reports.

The embattled Platner, who is facing numerous controversies, will now challenge moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who was unopposed for the GOP nomination, in left-leaning Maine in this year’s midterm elections. The race is one of a handful across the country that will determine whether the GOP keeps control of its slim Senate majority.

Platner, who advocates an economically populist agenda as he takes aim at corporate influences and advocates for the working class, also topped two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills in the primary. The governor’s name remained on the ballot even though Mills, who had been backed by longtime Democratic Senate Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, suspended her bid earlier this spring after significantly trailing Platner in fundraising and polling.

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«We’re going to win in November and we’re going to take power back for the people in this country,» Platner predicted Sunday night, at his final rally ahead of the primary.

Platner has been playing defense the past month, amid multiple controversies. They include inflammatory online comments made on Reddit, a well-publicized and now covered-up tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi symbol, recent reports that he exchanged sexually explicit messages with several women while married, and new allegations last week from ex-girlfriends of a history of rape fantasies, heavy drinking and violent episodes. Platner has called the latest allegations of violence untrue.

On Monday, a day before the primary election, a former high-level staffer from the Planter campaign wrote in the Washington Post that Platner «is not someone who would be good for Maine or for the country.»

While the mounting controversies triggered some Democrats in the nation’s capital to question whether Platner was damaged goods, the candidate this past weekend thanked Maine voters for continuing to support him.

«When hurtful things I said on the internet a decade ago came out into the public as I shared my personal journey through PTSD and darkness of recovery and accountability and growth. Maine had my back,» Platner said at a rally Friday not far from his hometown in Down East Maine. «Now, as every single piece of that past and journey gets dug up, litigated, and weaponized, you have my back. And when politically motivated, serious and false accusations are made against me. Maine, you have my back.»

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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks to supporters at a rally in Bar Harbor, Maine, on June 5, 2026 (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

Platner, who has acknowledged his battle with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) from his three tours of duty in the war in Iraq with the Marines and one tour with the Army National Guard in Afghanistan, apologized for his controversial Reddit posts after some of them made headlines last fall soon after he launched his Senate campaign.

And Platner has said he got the skull and crossbones tattoo in 2007 while drinking with fellow Marines stationed in Croatia. He said that he covered up the tattoo with a new design after learning last year that it resembled a Nazi symbol. But new allegations from an ex-girlfriend raise questions about Platner’s timeline regarding knowledge of the tattoo.

Khanna, who organized Friday’s rally with Platner, was asked by Fox News Digital whether he’s concerned if the current allegations, and any potential future ones, could sink Platner’s campaign and hurt Democrats’ hopes of winning back the Senate.

«I’m more concerned about making it clear that we’re opposed to misogyny, those relationships were toxic and volatile, there’s no excuse for that,» Khanna said. «I talked to Graham and he says he was at a very dark period, he had come back from two tours of duty in Iraq as an infantryman seeing violence and death. That doesn’t excuse it.»

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But Khanna added that Platner said «he really grew as a person when he came back to Maine and he was an oyster farmer and he found peace and he is ashamed of that period. To me that suggests someone taking accountability and improving their lives and we need that redemption in this country. And I agree with a lot of his economic policies, that we should be taxing the billionaires, we should be focusing on the working class.»

Maine voters Fox News reporters spoke with ahead of the rally were divided on whether Platner’s controversies would impact their opinions of the candidate.

Jeff from Waterboro, Maine said «it’s not a good situation» as he pointed to Platner. «I think it’s somebody who shouldn’t be in the mix. I am a conservative, but he’s just got so much damage, if the Democrats want to have a winner, they’re going to have to find somebody else. He’s not the guy. It’s just too much.»

Ellen from Acton, Maine, who said she is a registered Republican, said, «Is he a perfect person? Heck no.»

But she added, «I think he will go in and do a good job.»

Collins, returning to Maine on Friday after a busy week on Capitol Hill where she reached a milestone by casting her 10,000th consecutive vote in the Senate, was asked by reporters about the latest allegations facing Platner.

«The allegations in the latest story are troubling,» Collins responded. «And I believe that Graham Platner has a lot of questions to answer.»

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Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine tours a food bank in Harrison, Maine, on May 5, 2026. The food bank was able to expand thanks to federal funding that the senator helped obtain. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

Platner is facing plenty of incoming political fire from Republican groups. A super PAC aligned with Collins has been blasting Platner, running ads spotlighting his multiple controversies.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) charged that Platner is a «fraud.»

«He’s preaching about living a small but decent life growing up in Maine. The truth? Graham Platner is an elitist whose parents sent him to boarding school in Connecticut and bought him a house,» the NRSC wrote.

And the Republican National Committee (RNC) also targeted Platner.

«Graham Platner says his violent and erratic past is being ‘weaponized’ against him. Platner said he would rape someone to show his dominance and ‘rape was about power,’» the RNC research team wrote on X, pointing to the latest allegations against the candidate.

Despite the allegations and the incoming fire from the GOP, no Democratic politicians who have backed Platner have rescinded their endorsements.

«We need to unite and realize that the goal is defeating Susan Collins. And everyone from Schumer to Sanders is unified around that goal,» Khanna told Fox News Digital.

Platner has drawn large crowds and built a healthy fundraising war chest, and Democrats see Maine as a crucial pickup opportunity as they aim to win back the Senate majority.

But beating Collins won’t be easy. Six years ago, public opinion polls indicated the senator was headed to defeat, but Collins defied expectations and won re-election by topping then-Democratic state House Speaker Sara Gideon by nine points.

Collins, a moderate Republican who at times votes against President Donald Trump’s agenda, is running for a sixth six-year term in the Senate.

The senator voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, in 2021 soon after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. And early last year she opposed the confirmation of now-Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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But she is also remembered for her 2018 vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, which eventually helped the court’s conservative majority overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling which had legalized abortion nationwide.