2<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n The famouse Barrowlands Ballroom music venue in Glasgow.Credit: Getty<\/p>\n McAvoy, 46, has been shooting the true story of students Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, who fooled top music bosses into believing they were US rappers. <\/p>\n The California<\/a> Schemin\u2019 director said: \u201cWe basically put on a gig and the guys in the movie performed as if they were doing a gig. <\/p>\n \u201cGlasgow showed up, we didn\u2019t pay them, and gave us a real, big movie ending. They gave everything, it was amazing, I felt so proud.\u201d <\/p>\n McAvoy told the Liverpool<\/a> Comic Con convention: \u201cThere\u2019s a thing people in Glasgow do when they go to a gig, they shout, \u2018Here we, here we, here we f* go!\u2019. <\/p>\n So we have Glasgow in the film doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n Bain and Boyd, played by S\u00e9amus McLean Ross and Samuel Bottomley, reinvented themselves as hip-hop act Silibil N\u2019 Brains after being mocked for their Scottish accents at a US audition. <\/p>\n They then landed a record deal, appeared on MTV<\/a> and supported Eminem<\/a>.<\/p>\n Martin Compston’s spine-chilling new Prime Video thriller Fear with Game of Thrones legend James Cosmo – fans don’t have to wait long to watch it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAMES McAvoy has revealed he has included an X-rated chant by 2,000 music fans in his debut movie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,10841,918,4884,498,556,451,711,712,106,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-82848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-festivals","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-hollywood","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-netflix","15":"tag-pop-music","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-section-showbizcelebrity","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114468634489226924","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Headshot](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/actor-james-mcavoy-attends-red-976546132.jpg\")
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