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James McAvoy Lifts Lid On Directorial Debut ‘California Schemin’: “It Was The Most Stressful Thing I’ve Ever Done In My Life” — Glasgow Film Festival
The 'X-Men' and 'Speak No Evil' actor spoke about his first experience in the director's chair at a panel at the Glasgow Film Festival
The X-Men actor recently wrapped shooting California Schemin’, based on Gavin Bain’s autobiography of the same name, which was later re-printed as Straight Outta Scotland. McAvoy’s fiction feature is set in the late 1990s, where Bain and Billy Boyd had their musical ambitions consistently ridiculed for having the “wrong” accents, so they went for broke and reinvented themselves as Californian rappers. McAvoy said he was delighted to find a story that had a Scottish element to it and would enable him to shoot in his home country – the film shot in November in locations across Dundee and Glasgow.
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