The UK’s Daily Record interview of Kevin McKidd-

SCOTS star Kevin McKidd is now a giant in Hollywood – playing a 40ft Greek god in his new action movie.

But he says the best part of his new role is the fact that his two young children can watch him on the big screen for the first time.

Kevin plays sea god Poseidon in the £100million (approximately $156.12 million) family blockbuster Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, alongside Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Steve Coogan and Sean Bean.

And the 36-year-old admits it’s the first time his children won’t be barred from watching their dad act.

He said: “My kids are really excited about Percy Jackson. They think it’s going to be cool that they’ll be able to see me in the cinema.”

It’s been 14 years since the Elgin-born actor shot to fame with Trainspotting but his kids haven’t seen his films because he reckoned they were too violent.

Kevin’s first big film was the Scottish movie Small Faces, where he played a razor-slashing Glasgow gang leader.

More recently he appeared in Hannibal Rising, about the origins of serial killer Hannibal Lecter.

Now his kids have started looking for projects that their dad could star in – and they can watch.

His son Joseph begged him to appear in Percy Jackson as the hero’s long-lost dad, Poseidon.

Kevin said: “Joseph read the first book and he’d never seen anything I’d been in. He was right down my throat, telling me I had to do it.”

Joseph and his sister Iona have also seen their dad become a star in Channel 5′s Grey’s Anatomy.

And they were delighted when Kevin got called up by Disney and asked to provide a voice in Pixar’s Scottish animated movie, The Bear And The Bow, featuring Reece Witherspoon, Billy Connolly and Emma Thompson.

Kevin said: “Joseph just knows I’m doing a voice in a Pixar film. I haven’t done the recordings yet so I’ll know more in March when I start.

“I’m dead excited about it – and that I’m working with Billy Connolly.”

Kevin’s Poseidon appears in Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief with the mighty Zeus (Bean), the wicked Hades (Coogan) and the other gods of ancient Olympus.

But the film has a thoroughly modern setting – and a dramatic entrance for Kevin. He appears in the first scene marching out of the Hudson River and into present-day Manhattan.

He said: “The thing I found hardest was walking out of the water. You can’t just look like you’re going down the paper shop.

“I was supposed to be 40ft tall so I had to look as if my bones were much bigger and give a sense of momentum.

“I thought I’d be done by lunch but it took two days.”

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