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Fresh from the universally adored Trainspotting, Robert Carlyle decided to not be typecast as Begbie-type psychopaths for the rest of his life and for his next role tried his hand as the lead of a light-hearted British comedy.

The film was The Full Monty, and while this comedy should have provided as many laughs filming it as an audience had watching it, Carlyle noted "[it] was a tough shoot. It was so horrible that when Fox Searchlights saw the first cut they said 'straight to video'." Carlyle not only thought this film would be shunned by cinemas but also feared it would put a dampener on his newfound fame from Trainspotting.

However, after The Full Monty producer Uberto Pasolini begged the studio to give them another chance they managed to re-edit the car crash into what would become the summer box office smash of the year on both sides of the Atlantic. Not only this but the small English film went on to beat the seemingly unsinkable Titanic at the BAFTAs for Best Picture and Carlyle himself won Best Actor over favourite Kevin Spacey.

After The Full Monty, Carlyle's career has only blossomed as he played a Bond villain opposite Pierce Brosnan, Hitler in an acclaimed TV miniseries and revisited Begbie in 2017's T2 Trainspotting.