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Can you still cry on cue? “Pretty much so. There have been a couple of times when I haven’t been able to, but that’s usually at the end of a long day when I’ve done it 20 times already. It’s strange because I don’t think I’ve had a sad life（想起JM简介上那个惊心动魄的“苦命儿”……）, quite the reverse actually. It’s just something I can do for some reason.”
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---His LIFE....
McAvoy may not have had a sad life, but it hasn’t been an easy one – at least not to begin with. He and his sister were brought up by their maternal grandparents in Drumchapel, a particularly rough suburb of Glasgow – this was after his father abandoned his mother. There was a lot of unemployment in Drumchapel, a lot of crime and a lot of violence. McAvoy was never beaten up, he says, but became adept at keeping his head down.
（JM原来是个乖孩子 第一次知道）
“My grandparents were always very strict with me, my mother, too. I know it may sound as if things were quite difficult, unstable or whatever, but in fact they weren’t at all. I was very happy as a child, even though I was never let out of the door on my own until I was 16. In a way I think that stopped me from getting into mischief, but I don’t think I was ever that mischievous anyway,” he says.
“I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn’t think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right – I did always want to be good.”
Periodically, his father has cropped up in the tabloids, trying to flog his story and piggyback on his son’s fame. James snr is a roofer who still lives in Glasgow; McAvoy jnr, you suspect, has no wish to have anything to do with him. Not that he says so directly – when the subject comes up, he gives one of his apologetic winces（第一次wince）, shakes his head and nudges the conversation on.
For as long as he can remember, he had lofty ambitions. “I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.（“C'est la vie” 嗯嗯嗯……）
“It’s true I did start to get more realistic as I was about to leave school, but I never felt that there was this glass ceiling that I’d never been able to break though. I mean, it wasn’t as if I wanted to become an astronaut.
“Somehow I always had this sense that I was going to be all right, that I’d be happy and not have to depend on anyone else. That was always very important to me, not to be in debt to anyone, money-wise. I was determined not to take any money off my mother or my grandparents after I was 18.”（聪明而实际的选择。。）
He was a clever boy, but not a cocky one – or not unduly so, anyway. “I certainly wasn’t before I got to the age of 14. If anything, I was quite shy. Then I was very lucky to get these two exceptional teachers who really inspired me. Due to them I started this little school band（那个名字很酷的乐队？呵呵） with a couple of mates,” McAvoy says.
“That was when I thought for the first time that I might have quite a strong imagination and a creative streak, and I didn’t have to be like everyone else. I suddenly started dressing differently and having pals that I wouldn’t have dared have previously, because it would have got me beaten up.”
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-What was your most embarrassing moment?
JM:I was nominated for a comedy award. It was for Shameless in which I think I was the only character not to get a laugh. I was up against Catherine Tate and the like, and felt like an impostor. When the camera did the nominees shot, I thought, “I need to be funny”, and pulled a face. It was one of the most ugly I’ve ever seen. Needless to say, I did not win.
JM:I was nominated for a comedy award. It was for Shameless in which I think I was the only character not to get a laugh. I was up against Catherine Tate and the like, and felt like an impostor. When the camera did the nominees shot, I thought, “I need to be funny”, and pulled a face. It was one of the most ugly I’ve ever seen. Needless to say, I did not win.
