Premiere: Robert Carlyle | The Legend of Barney Thomson (The Fan Carpet)

The Fan Carpet’s Jen Scouler was in attendance at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to talk to Robert Carlyle at the World Premiere for his Directorial Debut The Legend of Barney Thomson. THE LEGEND OF BARNEY THOMSON tells the tale of Barney (Carlyle), a hapless barber, devoid of charm and ‘patter’ as his fellow barbering brethren mockingly remind him. Barney’s mediocre, mundane life of plotting for a way up is about to be transformed, following a typically incompetent fit of pique, when he inadve