Kevin plays Percy’s dad, Poseidon.

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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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Name: Kevin McKidd

Date of Birth: August 9, 1973

Hometown: Elgin, Moray, Scotland

Facts: Kevin McKidd was brought up in Elgin, Scotland and was a member of the Moray Youth Theatre before going on to study Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. While at university Kevin became involved with Bedlam Theatre, the university’s student theatre company. At this point Kevin decided to give up on engineering and dropped out of university to pursue acting full-time. In 1994 he landed the leading role in the stageplay ‘The Silver Darlings’, produced by Robert Carlyle’s Rain Dog Theatre Company. It was only a matter of time before Kevin made his screen debut as the vicious gangleader Malky Johnson in Gillies Mackinnon’s Small Faces (1996). His next role was as the tragic, gentle giant Tommy in Trainspotting (1996).

What I have seen him in: Kingdom of Heaven, Made of Honor

What you might have seen him in: Kavanagh QC, Transpotting, Small Faces, The leading Man, Father Ted, Richard II, Regeneration, Understanding Jane, Looking After Jo Jo, Dad Savage, The Acid House, Bedrooms and Hallways, Hideous Kinky, Marcie’s Dowry, Topsy- Turvry, The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns, Anna Karenina, North Square, That Old One, Dog Soldiers, Max, Nicholas Nickleby, Does God Play Football, 16 Years of Alcohol, AfterLife, “The Key”, One Last Chance, Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, The Rocket Post, The Purifiers, De-Lovely, Kingdom of Heaven, The Virgin Queen, Hannibal Rising, Rome, The Last Legion, Journeyman, Made of Honor, Grey’s Anatomy, Bunraku

Who he is playing: Poseidon

What I think about him playing the role: I think he will play a pretty cool Poseidon even though he reminds me of a bad guy.

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