Save Our School of Stardom ; As the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Struggles to Cope with a Budget Deficit, the Stars Who Trained There Recall It Fondly and Rally to the Cause

Daily MailMay 31, 2008

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EVERY day for the past eight years, James McAvoy has experienced the sense that he is living parallel lives. In the first, he has become a wealthy Hollywood star. In the other, he is a very different character - an aimless, angry drunk whose future has dissipated before it reaches the next desolate street corner.

The actor believes the paths to these diametrically opposite places diverged in 2000, on the steps of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. It was a new millennium and a fresh start for the Drumchapel boy.

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Save Our School of Stardom ; As the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Struggles to Cope with a Budget Deficit, the Stars Who Trained There Recall It Fondly and Rally to the Cause

Studying at Glasgow's version of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - Scotland's only conservatoire - was a passport to another country for the future star of The Last King of Scotland. But he is conscious of what might have been.

'Without it, I'd be on a corner drinking Buckfast,' he says unequivocally.

This week, he raised his voice to demand that an economic 'restructuri...

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