Kevin admitted his homesickness got worse not being able to visit Scotland because of the pandemic
Grey's Anatomy star Kevin McKidd has revealed he’s “really homesick” and been looking to work in Scotland for years.
After his breakout year in 1996 playing the doomed Tommy in Trainspotting and gang leader Malky in Small Faces, Kevin was a jobbing actor until finding international fame in Grey’s Anatomy. But the show – which he has directed 30 episodes of as well as starring in 300 of them – kept him mainly Stateside, although he was back 13 years ago for One Night in Emergency and more recently in 2015 for Sunset Song, but his part got cut.
The sign of any good TV cop is the familiarity of a piece of clothing, especially a coat – from Columbo’s raincoat to Vera’s trench coat. For Kevin’s O’Neill, he has a dowdy, lumpy green number that reflects how he feels at the start of the series. He said: “Taggart is my favourite Scottish cop. I grew up with him. We all did. So when we were filming in Glasgow and people leant out of their windows and would shout, ‘What are youse filming?’ I would joke, ‘We’re doing a remake of Taggart. Taggart’s Dad and I play the dad.”
The opening scene of Six Four sees O’Neill and his wife at an Edinburgh morgue seeing if the body of a dead teenage girl is their missing daughter. It’s a powerful opening to the drama and continues when his wife runs away from him and catches a train back to London and her old life.
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