To cinephiles believing British accents sound sophisticated and classy on the big screen, especially when it comes to Hollywood fantasy and epic heroes, proud Scot James McAvoy dissents. The Speak No ...

They rose to fame by disguising their Scots accents. But James McAvoy says he chose to direct a film based on the tale of a pair of Dundee rappers who fooled the music industry into believing they ...

Back in the early 2000s, a pair of blue-eyed Scottish lads with dreams of becoming the next Eminem — but dismissed as sounding like “the rapping Proclaimers” — proceeded to pass themselves off as ...

James McAvoy knows not to trust the British tabloids. While flogging his grotty drama Filth, based on the Irvine Welsh novel about a coke-addicted, double-crossing cop, they breathlessly reported that ...