Robert Carlyle Returns to Directing With Short 'Three'
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- Robert Carlyle is debuting his new short film "Three" at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Friday, with a second screening scheduled for Sunday
- "Three" is described as a darkly funny, increasingly unsettling three-hander about sex, class, power and three people trying to work out exactly who is using whom
- Carlyle previously directed 2015 black comedy "The Legend of Barney Thomson," starring Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone and Ashley Jensen — his last turn in the director's chair before "Three"
- Trainspotting returns to cinemas in a new 4K restoration from 21 August, 30 years after Carlyle's turn as violent, pint-swilling psychopath Francis Begbie
- The outlet is inviting reader questions for a Q&A with Carlyle, with submissions closing at 6pm on Wednesday 19 August
- Carlyle's career also includes The Full Monty, Bond villain Renard in The World Is Not Enough, Sherlock Holmes in Watson, Rumplestiltskin in Once Upon a Time, and the British prime minister in Cobra
Why it matters: The reader Q&A submission window closes 6pm on Wednesday 19 August, giving fans a direct line to a genuinely newsworthy subject — Carlyle's first directing credit in over a decade, plus the 30th-ann Trainspotting re-release that puts Begbie's moustache back in cinemas from 21 August. For the outlet, the new short turns what could have been a routine career retrospective into a peg with current festival oxygen.
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