Scots actors are definitely flavour of the month, and new kid on the block Douglas Henshall is no exception.
Sean Connery began the trend way back in the Sixties and, nearly 40 years later, Scots are still taking the lead roles in films and television shows across the world.
Ewan McGregor is on the cover of Vanity Fair for the second time in months. Robert Carlyle is the improbable owner of an OBE. Alan Cumming is the toast of Broadway. John Hannah is playing the lead in a Hollywood movie.
And even John Gordon Sinclair is back where he belongs in the soon-to-be released Gregory's Girl Two.
The current flying Scotsman who has the industry's attention is the aforementioned Douglas Henshall - Duggie to his pals.
In the next couple of months there will be no getting away from him.
He takes the lead in Psychos, a Channel Four drama set in a psychiatric hospital in Glasgow, and plays one of the 'Orphans' in Peter Mullan's directorial debut, also set in Glasgow.
But before all that comes a film launched nationwide tomorrow - This Year's Love, a fizzing comedy, written by a Scot, at least 50 per cent about Scots and set in London's trendy Camden.
Duggie plays Danny, a tattoo artist who is told at his wedding to Catherine McCormack that she has had a one-night stand with the best man.
On the rebound, he embarks on a series of romantic interludes, including one with a Heathrow Airport cleaner and sometime backing singer played by the talented Kathy Burke.
The latest addition to the 'Jock Pack' is proud of his roots and is delighted when people realise he is north of the border. But don't say it's because of the way he looks...
"If you dare say it's because I've got red hair, I'll kill you." he jokes.
Although he has lived in London for 14 years - in the trendy Brixton area - and can do the full range of English accents, his speech is pure Glaswegian.
He supports St Mirren and isn't ashamed to admit it.
"They're languishing halfway down the First Division." he quips. Unlike himself, of course.
His attitude to life and his career is refreshing. There are no starry demands for this lad and he is happy to carve out his own way - however long it takes.
Ask him if he doesn't feel the tiniest twinge of jealously at Ewan McGregor's success and the answer is no. He explains: "I didn't want anybody else's career, ever. I don't want anybody else's talent.
"I'm happy with mine. I'll get where I want to go in whatever way it takes me. Life is too short to be bitter in this business. It's just not worth it."
But despite his current philosophy, the rising star is admits it hasn't always been that way.
He said: "There are times when I've sat and thought, 'When is it going to happen for me?'
"I went through a long time of coming down to the last two or three things and knowing I was dead right for it, and it's just not going my way.
"I used to beat myself up something terrible over that. There are times when you think, 'Oh God, please will one of these things go my way.'"
His private prayers were answered.
He came down to London at 18 - he is now 32 - and got his break in Dennis Potter's Lipstick on Your Collar, as a wife-beating corporal marooned in an office full of toffs at the MoD.
Ironically, the one person his junior was none other than Ewan McGregor, whose career has since shot him into orbit and super stardom.
He also played Patsy Kensit's brother in Angels and Insects and spent a year with The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. But it was last year that his career was given the rocket-fuel boost he needed, when he landed the lead role in If Only.
"It was the first time somebody had said 'We'll trust a lead character in a movie to you.'" he said. "If only If Only hadn't been compared to Sliding Doors in every review.
"It died on its arse, I believe is the expression. Hey ho."
Then came this - Psychos.
He said: "I decided that Psychos had to be mine. I just had faith I was going to get it because I'm right for the part."
The headcases in the title are not patients of course - but doctors.
Henshall plays a psychiatrist whose professional abilities are fine in a weird sort of a way. Cracker springs to mind as a comparison - but Duggie's performance is much more manic than Fritz made famous by Robbie Coltrane.
In fact, Henshall couldn't be further physically from Coltrane because he is very thin.
And for all his elevation to the Scottish Premier League, he keeps a lean and hungry look.
"I'm not so desperate now," he says with relief. "It's a terrible smell, desperation.
"I've been there. You can sometimes want things too much."
Daily Mirror 18th February 1999