{"id":164686,"date":"2025-09-27T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164686\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:21:09","slug":"im-more-an-anarchist-than-ive-ever-been-irvine-welsh-on-new-biopic-channel-4-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164686\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m more an anarchist than I\u2019ve ever been\u2019 \u2013 Irvine Welsh on new biopic \u2013 Channel 4 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the immortal words \u201cChoose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Author Irvine Welsh \u2013 the man behind Trainspotting and that infamous monologue \u2013 is the subject of a new biopic Reality is not Enough, directed by Paul Sng, which has just gone on general release.<\/p>\n<p>We caught up with him earlier and discussed politics, working class aspirations, and the complex relationship he\u2019s had over the years with drugs, addiction, and creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember the immortal words \u201cChoose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family?\u201d Author Irvine Welsh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-164686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}