![]() ![]() The shadow of Braveheart hangs over the referendum campaign. Mark Carney: An independent Scotland would require bank supervision.Rowling enters the fray on Scotland’s independence Scotland to allow 16-year-olds to vote on independence.(Gibson, in various interviews, has expressed pleasant surprise that this film has resonance so long after it was made, but hasn’t directly commented on the referendum.) Related from Maclean’s: “I’m for ‘Yes,’ ” echoed Macfadyen, who played the Scots king, Robert the Bruce. “ Braveheart was just a movie, but this referendum is the real deal,” said Cox, who played Argyle Wallace, uncle of the warrior hero William Wallace (played by Gibson). Stars Peter Mullan, Angus Macfadyen and Brian Cox all turned up at the Dominion cinema with wee blue ‘Yes’ pins on their lapels, indicating their support for Scottish independence. 18 referendum-in which voters will decide whether to break from England and declare independence-escaped no one’s notice, including the cast members. That the screening came during the campaign for Scotland’s Sept. The occasion was the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, depicted in the film, in which, after a series of humbling defeats, a contingent of scrappy Scottish warriors routed King Edward II’s army of English invaders. In late June, a bunch of aging Scottish actors gathered in Edinburgh for a screening of Mel Gibson’s 1995 epic Braveheart.
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