Ewan McGregor is trying again on a crappy expertise he had in Russia.

The Moulin Rouge star just lately recalled discovering a horrific public restroom 20 years in the past in a second that sounds uncannily paying homage to his iconic bathroom scene from his breakout movie Trainspotting.

McGregor stated he was "in the course of f—ing nowhere" in jap Russia taking pictures his journey sequence Lengthy Method Spherical in 2004 when the incident befell. "Then there was a bus cease that was a bathroom," the actor instructed The Guardian. "We opened the door, and there was a picket bathroom, however there was a pyramid of poo popping out of it."

The logistics of the pit-stop nightmare have been puzzling to him. "It stuffed up, they usually didn't cease pooing on it," McGregor marveled. "However I used to be pondering: 'How did they rise up the highest?' You'd must be standing up like…"

The actor then climbed atop a counter through the interview and gestured along with his hand above his head, signifying a top of no less than 9 toes. "Anyway, we have been simply all taking photos of one another subsequent to it," McGregor stated. "That was not a snug bathroom."

If McGregor didn't sound that fazed by the revolting restroom, maybe it's partly due to his onscreen historical past with nauseating bathrooms. In one of the crucial well-known scenes in 1996's Trainspotting, his character, Renton, is compelled to alleviate himself within the "worst bathroom in Scotland" — after which sift by means of his personal waste to search out his misplaced opium suppositories earlier than climbing headfirst into the commode, which serves as a gateway to a surreal ocean world.

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"I did used to indicate my children the bathroom scene, only for amusing," McGregor stated on the Karlovy Differ Movie Pageant in 2023. "It's a novel state of affairs, maybe, for a father to have the ability to present his kids footage of him happening the bathroom."

Trainspotting director Danny Boyle mirrored on filming the scene in a 2017 interview with Leisure Weekly. "It was meticulously clear," the filmmaker stated of the toilet set, noting that the excrement was really chocolate. "The set smelled actually candy — scrumptious, actually, sort of like a confectionary. You would have licked the chocolate proper off the bowl."

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Earlier within the Guardian interview, McGregor remembered one other difficult second from his adventures throughout that interval: consuming testicle soup whereas staying in Mongolia as he and his journey companion, Charley Boorman, made their approach from London to New York on bikes.

"I did do this," the actor stated. "I ate mine. Charley didn't get his down. Charley's got here flying straight again out once more. However I received mine down. It was all proper."

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