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As you already know, I like movies. And I’m usually pretty good at recognizing people from other films or TV shows even if they are hidden behind one disguise or another. It’s usually the voice that gives it to me because they’re much more likely to successfully disguise other characteristics.
Friday night I went to see a couple of Danny Boyle films that I’d not seen before, one of which was Trainspotting. I never went to see it when it came out because the subject just didn’t appeal to me but by now I’ve worked up enough interest in his films to want to see more of them. So I’m sitting there watching the film when one of the less flamboyant of the main characters starts to seem oddly familiar. He’s young and blond in the film but the accents are too thick for me to place him – besides the fact that he doesn’t talk nearly as much as the other three of the mates. Still, in the few shots where you get a good look at him, something about the chin and eyes just seemed familiar. At the credits I checked to see if the actor was a familiar name – but no, didn’t recall seeing and/or remembering Kevin McKidd for any reason.
It sat in the back of my mind overnight and still nothing so I had to do a little research. Not that it took long these days with IMDB and Wikipedia and such to consult. A few years ago I’d have spent days trying to track down whatever was nagging at me. Anyway, it turns out that the chin/eyes combination belongs to one of the newish characters on Grey’s Anatomy – Dr. Owen Hunt. He has some of that same haunted look as the doctor who’s back from the war but sounds nothing like he did back in Trainspotting. I’m a more or less regular watcher of Grey’s Anatomy but it takes me a long time to consciously know the names of series actors.
Mystery solved.
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