Washington
(ANI):
Scottish
actor
James
McAvoy
realised
how
blessed
his
life
has
been
after
seeing
the
living
conditions
in
Uganda.
McAvoy
went
to
Uganda
to
shoot
The
Last
King
Of
Scotland.
He
admits
that
witnessing
the
poverty
in
the
African
country
helped
him
realise
that
he
had
nothing
to
complain
about.
Coming
from
the
rough
Drumchapel
area
of
Glasgow
and
being
brought
up
by
his
maternal
grandparents
after
his
parents
split
when
he
was
just
seven
years
old,
left
him
feeling
deprived.
The
actor
had
always
considered
the
life
he
led
as
being
very
hard,
but
after
seeing
first
hand
the
desperate
conditions
most
Ugandans
had
to
live
in,
he
was
more
appreciative
of
his
upbringing.
"I
used
to
think
that
(I
had
a
tough
upbringing).
I
used
to
have
a
bit
of
a
working-class
chip
on
my
shoulder,
because
the
area
I
come
from
is
so
rough," Contactmusic
quoted
McAvoy
as
saying.
"But
then
I
went
to
Uganda
to
make
the
film
The
Last
King
of
Scotland
and
I
looked
around
at
the
poverty
there,
and
I
realised
that,
in
relative
world
terms,
I''m
actually
super-duper,
upper-class,
through-the-roof
posh.
"Any
chip
I
had
on
my
shoulder
about
Glasgow
was
insulting
to
the
people
who
lived
in
other
parts
of
the
world,
and
it
made
me
completely
re-evaluate
my
place
in
it," he
added.