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18.01.2022 - 15:17 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A hoaxer who posed as a 17-year-old schoolboy while in his 30s has had his bizarre story turned into a film featuring Aberfeldy -born actor Alan Cumming.
Brian MacKinnon fooled school bosses into thinking he was a bright teenager from Canada called Brandon Lee.
Mr MacKinnon, now 59, attended Bearsden Academy for the first time in the 1970s, later gaining a place to study medicine at Glasgow University.
However, after a lengthy illness and repeatedly failing exams, he was expelled from the course.
At 30, still desperate to become a doctor, he permed his hair and shaved his eyebrows, enrolling once more in 1993 as a fifth-year student.
His cover story was accepted without question despite his older appearance and a near slip up when he remarked he could remember Elvis Presley’s death in 1977.
Mr MacKinnon claimed he had been travelling in Canada with his mother, an opera singer, when she died in a road accident.
He said his father had then sent him to Bearsden.
MacKinnon even starred in the school musical, gained six highers and was offered a place at Dundee University’s medical school.
But a tip-off about his true identity caused his fake life to unravel spectacularly.
His unmasking in 1995 was widely reported by the media.
Now, his story is being told in documentary My Old School – starring X-Men actor Cumming (56) – to be premiered at Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival in Utah, USA, this month.
Told from Mr MacKinnon’s perspective, My Old School – written and directed by former classmate Jono McLeod – includes an interview with Mr MacKinnon himself, lip-synched by Cumming, and reminiscences from school friends and teachers.
Writer and director Jono McLeod, an old school pal, said: “Brandon wanted to tell his story and grant
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Most kids wouldn’t want to endure high school twice, although there are some who would no doubt prefer to remain there forever. Brandon Lee (no, not the late actor son of Bruce Lee) chose a third path by re-enrolling when he was 32 years old and getting away with it, at least for a while. How it all happened is whimsically recounted in My Old School, a clever, amusing and rather slight account of a Scottish misfit’s most irregular education. Or, as Woody Allen used to describe himself, it’s “thin but fun.”
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debuted at Sundance this week, unravels Lee’s bizarre story with actor Alan Cumming sitting in for the man himself by lip-syncing to Lee’s narration (Lee agreed to tell his story, but didn’t want to appear on camera). Director Jono McLeod, who knew Lee as a fellow student, tells the tale via interviews with his now-50-something classmates, animated sequences and snippets of old video. Cumming, who was originally attached to star in a now-defunct feature adaptation of the story, remembers the saga as a news bombshell in Scotland.
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His name was Brandon and to almost everyone at Glasgow’s Bearsden Academy, he seemed a bit odd. This new pupil was much taller than the other students, said he was from Canada and, well, his face looked…strange.
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