Jonny Lee Miller talks T2 Trainspotting, Sick Boy and staying low key off screen

By Celia Walden
Updated February 18 2017 - 1:18pm, first published February 12 2017 - 12:59pm
Jonny Lee Miller says he is in acting for the long haul. Photo: Mark Mainz/Invision/AP
Jonny Lee Miller says he is in acting for the long haul. Photo: Mark Mainz/Invision/AP
Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as  Watson   in <i>Elementary</i>. Photo: CBS
Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Watson in <i>Elementary</i>. Photo: CBS
Miller (left) with Ewan McGregor and Anjela Nedyalkova in <i>T2 Trainspotting</i>. Photo: Jaap Buitendijk/TriStar
Miller (left) with Ewan McGregor and Anjela Nedyalkova in <i>T2 Trainspotting</i>. Photo: Jaap Buitendijk/TriStar
The original <i>Trainspotting</i> (from left): Renton (Ewan McGregor), Tommy (Kevin McKidd), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle).
The original <i>Trainspotting</i> (from left): Renton (Ewan McGregor), Tommy (Kevin McKidd), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle).
Reunion: <i>T2 Trainspotting</i> stars (from left) Ewen Bremner, Ewan McGregor, Miller and Robert Carlyle. Photo: Joel Ryan/Invision/AP
Reunion: <i>T2 Trainspotting</i> stars (from left) Ewen Bremner, Ewan McGregor, Miller and Robert Carlyle. Photo: Joel Ryan/Invision/AP
Jonny Lee Miller as Simon in <i>T2 Trainspotting</i>. Twenty years after the original film, the character's "maturity level is sort of stuck", says Miller. Photo: Jaap Buitendijk/TriStar
Jonny Lee Miller as Simon in <i>T2 Trainspotting</i>. Twenty years after the original film, the character's "maturity level is sort of stuck", says Miller. Photo: Jaap Buitendijk/TriStar
Miller as Sick Boy, left, with Ewan McGregor and Kelly Macdonald in the original <i>Trainspotting</i>.  Photo: Supplied
Miller as Sick Boy, left, with Ewan McGregor and Kelly Macdonald in the original <i>Trainspotting</i>. Photo: Supplied
Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Watson in <i>Elementary</i>. Photo: Supplied
Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Watson in <i>Elementary</i>. Photo: Supplied
Angelina Jolie with Miller in the 1995 movie <i>Hackers</i>. Photo: United Artists
Angelina Jolie with Miller in the 1995 movie <i>Hackers</i>. Photo: United Artists
Miller as Eli with Taylor (Natasha Henstridge) in the TV series <i>Eli Stone</i>.  Photo: Supplied
Miller as Eli with Taylor (Natasha Henstridge) in the TV series <i>Eli Stone</i>. Photo: Supplied

Jonny Lee Miller is shy. At least I think he's shy. He walks into the central London hotel room in which I've been told to wait, hesitantly, semi-apologetically, head bowed and hand outstretched: "I don't know what you want 50 minutes with me for."

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