#flashback to 5 year old renton learning his abcs with 15 year old franco

[emily-in-crisis]

i'm watching t2 trainspotting and they really wanted us to believe that begbie was also a childhood friend of mark and simon. who was in their class in primary school. by using "oh he was just held back" as a reason for why he's so visibly older. held back....by ten years??