are recounting their stories of messy Scottish house parties, laughing together as they look back.
“Aw, I remember!” Lorn Macdonald butts in with his tale, playfully one-upping his co-star. “My brother had a party when I was younger, and some guy stole all of our DVDs. Not the boxes, just the discs! And we had this big beautiful golden retriever when I was younger, and now there’s a bunch of videos online of my big brother’s mates just, you know, [pretending to hump] her, and she’s just sitting there unbothered by the whole thing. The videos are still on YouTube,” he says, shaking his head.
An exploration of social class, the underground 90s dance scene and a platonic love story between two best pals,captures the nuances of Scottish youth culture in a way that most films about life ‘Up north’ fail to. That singular self-deprecating patriotism that every young Scot possesses can be hard to pin down, but by picking two lads who were already friends and asking them to relive their teenage years on screen, what they deliver, to the film’s benefit, doesn’t feel staged.
The plan was always to cast the boys as a duo, to read their chemistry and ensure the kinship felt real from the beginning, “but it didn’t work out that way”, Lorn says. “Cristian was doing [the stage version of]“We met when Lorn was in his last month at drama school,” Cristian smiles, unpacking his serendipitous friendship with his schoolmate at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow . “We started hanging out, realised we got on and stayed mates.
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