STAR director Danny Boyle took a quick break from promoting his latest film to visit his hometown last weekend.

The Radcliffe-born director watched Bury FC’s thrilling 3-3 draw with Walsall at Gigg Lane on Saturday, before heading into Manchester for a special Q&A session on the critically-acclaimed T2 Trainspotting.

Hundreds of film fans packed into the HOME theatre, of which Danny is a patron, for a screening of the eagerly-anticipated sequel on Saturday before then taking the chance to quiz the filmmaker on his career.

A HOME spokesman said: “It was an absolutely fantastic night and we were completely packed out.

“The original plan was to put the film on in our biggest screen, which has about 230 seats. But the demand for tickets was so high that we had to put it across three screens, so there were more than 400 people in total.

“Danny was great. He did a Facebook Live session for us, where we even had one question from someone in North America.

“He was very amenable, very helpful, and took the time to pose for photos with fans.

“He couldn’t have been more fantastic, even if he was a bit annoyed with Bury throwing away a two-goal lead.”

The 60-year-old revealed last week that he felt a “great shame” over his 10-year fall-out with Ewan McGregor, who made his international breakthrough in the original Trainspotting film, and that he is very grateful that they have now buried the hatchet.

His rift with the actor over 15 years ago was caused by his not casting McGregor in The Beach, in which the leading role went to Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Oscar-winning director told the Graham Norton Show last week: “I handled it very badly and I’ve apologised to Ewan.

“I feel a great shame about it that is difficult to explain.

“He handled it with enormous grace and courage. Someone asked him to present an award to me for Slumdog Millionaire and he did it and made this amazing speech and I was in tears back stage. I’m very grateful to him.”

The pair first first worked together on 1994’s Shallow Grave before they reunited for 1996’s Trainspotting and then A Life Less Ordinary in 1997.

The actor, best known for his role as the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars films, added: “It was a misunderstanding and a mishandling of a situation.

“It’s a big regret of mine that it went on for so long and a real shame we didn’t work together all those years.

“I had been in Danny’s first three films and then I wasn’t asked to be in his fourth - The Beach - but it wasn’t really about the film, it was about our friendship.”