Robert Carlyle (The Legend of Barney Thomson) has praised the script for Danny Boyle’s (Steve Jobs) upcoming drama Trainspotting 2 in an interview with NME, calling it “one of the best scripts I’ve fucking read”.

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The actor, who played Begbie in the original 1996 film, confirmed that the cast had an informal read-through of the script in the spring.

He called Danny Boyle the best director he had ever worked with and expressed confidence that Boyle could pull off a sequel to his beloved classic.

Carlyle said: “The way [writer] John Hodge has put this thing down, obviously with the help of Danny Boyle, is to make it about how the characters’ lives have moved on… or have they? Without giving anything away, maybe some of them haven’t really moved on. That’s what the audience is going to have to go through with them.”

Carlyle went on to say that Trainspotting 2 is going to be “a beautiful thing”, but added that he was “feeling a little bit tense” about the film given the success of the original and the wide adoration for it since its release.

Trainspotting 2 is set to shoot in Summer 2016.