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Absolutely beautiful. Where in gods name is he hiding?

Tell ME!!! damn :laugh: he plays in movies which are not very known and popular, but very professional and awarded...but I can

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Captain Oliver Wood!

oh my goodness, i so totally Love This Guy!

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oh you too??? That´s GREAT!! :clap:

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some small pics + article about Sean

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A rising Scottish star who is definitely not the new James McAvoy

ALISTAIR HARKNESS

SEAN Biggerstaff would like to get one thing straight: he's not the new Ewan McGregor. Nor is he the new James McAvoy. "Put that as the headline," grins Biggerstaff: "Not the new James McAvoy!" Not that this 23-year-old Glasgow native has anything against either star; he just finds the occupational hazard of being a young Scottish actor a bit weird. "I was doing an interview recently and someone said I could be the next Ewan McGregor and I was like: 'Isn't James McAvoy supposed to be that - it was on a magazine cover? I don't really see the link at all. They're both Scottish actors. That's it. I'm no more the next James McAvoy than I am the next Bill Murray."

Still, it's easy to understand why people are keen to cast Biggerstaff as Scotland's next breakthrough actor. He's got the confidence, the looks and, courtesy of his role as Quidditch captain Oliver Wood in the first two Harry Potter films, a worldwide fanbase. More importantly, his starring role in this week's Glasgow Film Festival opener, Cashback, confirms he's got the talent and screen presence to become a formidable leading man if he wants.

Expanded from writer-director Sean Ellis's Oscar-nominated short of the same name, it's an ambitious, visually dazzling, somewhat surreal romantic fantasy and, though it occasionally strays into conventional British rom-com territory, Biggerstaff is consistently good as an insomniac art student who imagines he can freeze time, bringing a quiet power to a part that requires him to internalise most of his emotions.

That might be a trickier thing to do come Thursday's gala British premiere. Despite travelling all over the world with the film, the home crowd is going to be different. "It's the first time in ages I've been nervous about anything because none of my friends or family have seen it."

It's certainly a fitting locale to premiere his first lead film role. He's been treading the boards in Glasgow since he was seven, after joining his local drama club in Maryhill. A stint with the Scottish Youth Theatre followed, before Alan Rickman cast him in his directorial debut, The Winter Guest. Biggerstaff remembers that meeting. "I was walking down Buchanan Street and a friend of mine came running out and shouted: 'The baddie from Die Hard is here!' I don't think I'd actually seen Die Hard, so I walked in and went: 'Oh! You mean the Sheriff of Nottingham is here.' I'm sure he would have hated to have heard that."

Rickman remains a friend and mentor, having been kind enough to put in a good word for Biggerstaff when he auditioned for Harry Potter. "I don't know how much of a factor it was, but certainly a recommendation from Alan is no bad thing in this business."

Though only a minor character, he got a bizarre taster of the devotion Potter-mania inspires when it was announced he wouldn't be in the third film. Fans started an online petition, even threatening a boycott if he wasn't reinstated. He's not bitter about being cut, though. "I was at the read-through but [producer] David Heyman called and said: 'As it stands, you're a glorified extra and that's a waste of your time and our money. Sorry.' But, you know, what's the difference between doing two and doing three?"

Has he capitalised on it with meetings in Hollywood? "I have, but I should probably go out there more. If I do have a long, successful career, it won't be through being a shrewd businessman. I get too homesick." Indeed, living in Glasgow is something he's determined to continue doing. "Career-wise it's not the best. But there's work and then there's life - and work's just one part of it. If I moved away, the job would become everything and I don't want that."

It's a healthy attitude, leaving him time to do the occasional gig around Glasgow with his band, Johnny and the Robots. With his next few projects he might even be able to combine the two: he's just signed on to do Notes on a Naked Youth, about cult musician/poet/artist Billy Childish.

He's also optioned the book Winos, Rhinos and Lunatics, an account of the rock'n'roll excesses of forgotten 1970s Welsh prog-rock band, Man. "I'd love [Withnail & I writerdirector] Bruce Robinson to direct it."

Does that mean he has a fantasy list of directors he'd like to work with soon?

"I wouldn't be inclined to draw a line between fantasy and reality," says Biggerstaff.

"I know what you mean, but I've already ended up doing things that if someone had told me about beforehand I'd think they were daft. So I'm not going to get my hopes up that I might star in a David Fincher movie, but I'm not going to discount it either. Stranger things have happened."

• Cashback opens the Glasgow Film Festival at the Glasgow Film Theatre on 15 February and will screen again on 16 February.

This article: http://living.scotsman.com/people.cfm?id=225142007

Last updated: 12-Feb-07 01:07 BST

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HE IS SO ATTRACTIVE

Him & Robert Pattinson are the hottest in harry potter

i saw the first film when i was like 12 but i recognised just how hot he was.

wow.

hopefully he breaks out & we hear MUCH more about him.

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