James McAvoy used to think that he had a hard childhood due to the economic status of his family. He was bitter about his grandparents raising him in Glasgow and had a "working class chip" on his shoulder. Well, that all came to an end after a trip to Uganda while filming The Last King of Scotland. He saw firsthand what real poverty was and now has a different view of his life. 

"I used to think that (I had a tough upbringing). I used to have a bit of a working-class chip on my shoulder, because the area I come from is so rough. "But then I went to Uganda to make the film The Last King of Scotland and I looked around at the poverty there, and I realised that, in relative world terms, I’m actually super-duper, upper-class, through-the-roof posh. "Any chip I had on my shoulder about Glasgow was insulting to the people who lived in other parts of the world, and it made me completely re-evaluate my place in it."