Alan Cumming said the story of a schoolboy imposter “pushes all our buttons” for Scots as a film about the fake pupil received its European premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival.
My Old School tells the story of Brian MacKinnon who, aged 32, posed as a 17-year-old called Brandon Lee in 1993 to re-enrol as a pupil and re-sit his Highers at his old school Bearsden Academy.
His deception was not discovered until 1995 after he had gained five A grade Highers and a place at medical school at Dundee University.
Cumming lip-syncs to the words of an audio interview that MacKinnon granted to director and his former classmate Jono McLeod, as MacKinnon did not want to appear on camera.
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