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Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, and Kelly Macdonald in Trainspotting (1996)

Irvine Welsh: Mikey Forrester

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh credited as playing...

Mikey Forrester

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  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [narrating] This was typical of Mikey Forrester.
  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: What the fuck are these?
  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [narrating] In the normal run of things, I would have nothing to do with the cunt. But this was not the normal run of things.
  • Mikey Forrester: Opium suppositories. Ideal for your purposes. Slow release. Bring you down gradual. Custom-fucking-designed for your needs.
  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: I want a fucking hit!
  • Mikey Forrester: That's all I've got, matey. Take it or leave it.
  • [Renton considers this and grudgingly takes the opium suppositories and inserts them]
  • Mikey Forrester: Aye, you feeling better now though, eh?
  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Oh, aye, for all the good they've done me, I might as well have stuck them up my arse!

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