Trainspotting actor Kevin McKidd is back on our screens and, once again, the subject is trains. "It all started with Trainspotting. There has to be a train involved somewhere in everything I do, it turns out," he jokes.
McKidd stars in the Primrose Railway Children, a CBBC family drama kicking off the channel's Christmas programming this Sunday. The Grey's Anatomy star says it was fantastic to film at home, working with crews that remember him from early in his career. "I get very homesick.
" he admitted. "I'm in Los Angeles filming for nine months of the year so anytime I get to come home and work with people from my past and connect with everybody..
. it's lovely. "I cut my teeth here as an actor doing Trainspotting and Small Faces and all those films back in the day, so it feels like coming home for me.
" Born in Elgin in Moray, McKidd started acting in local youth theatre before going on to study drama at Queen Margaret University. He found success in his role as Tommy Mackenzie in Trainspotting in 1996. Since 2008, he has played American doctor and fans' favourite Dr Owen Hunt in Grey's Anatomy.
Voicing the characters of Lord MacGuffin and young MacGuffin in Disney Pixar movie Brave in 2012 gave him the opportunity to exhibit his real off-screen accent as well as some Doric, a dialect he heard spoken at home by his grandfather. McKidd said the Hollywood film and TV industries are starting to recognise the beauty and versatility of filming in Scotland. He said: "There is so .