HE has watched his latest film premiere at Cannes Film Festival and received rave reviews but Conor McCarron isn't about to let all that go to his head.

He says he's rather live in Govan than the south of France.

It's good to see the boy who grew up in Pollok in Glasgow's south side, who shot to fame in the lead role in Peter Mullan's Neds, has his feet firmly on the ground.

"Cannes was fantastic, it is one of the best places to show. I had the privilege to go to Cannes for the first time and I just absolutely loved it," he says of watching Catch Me Daddy, which also stars Gary Lewis, screen in front of film industry insiders.

"It was crazy to come from the south side of Glasgow and arrive in Cannes and see how people live there: the yachts, the Ferraris. It's all money, it's quite the lifestyle if you've got it.

"I enjoyed it but I still like living in the south side of Glasgow. I like Glasgow but Cannes was nice."

Directed by Daniel Wolfe, visceral thriller Catch Me Daddy traces the story of Laila, newcomer Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, and her boyfriend Aaron, played by 21-year-old Conor, when they go on the run from her family.

The film looks at the brutal subject of honour killings yet has been beautifully shot on the Yorkshire Moors, following the young couple trying to stay a step ahead of a gang of thugs on their trail.

After picking up a Best Newcomer Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival at the age of 17 after after his spare, moving portrayal of a young boy who becomes embroiled in gang culture in Neds, Conor could be on the way to more accolades for his latest work.

He has done plenty of interviews since the launch of Neds but Conor is still a refreshingly polite and slightly nervous young man, eager to please and thrilled to bits to be talking about his new film.

"It was one of the best auditions I've ever had," recalls Conor, who recently appeared in For Those in Peril and short film The Gas Man.

"You can go into auditions and really need to find your comfort zone and relax into it but this was a really nice audition. It was laid back. I think they were looking to see how Aaron could be as a person and they must have seen something in me.

"I didn't know much about the character, they didn't send me a script in advance. It was purely improvised.

"I'm absolutely overjoyed with the film, I'm honoured to be in it. In my opinion it will be one of these films that will go down in British cinema history.

"It really hits home when you're watching it. When I saw the end I was lost for words, I couldn't say anything."

There was a script for the film but Conor says he still hasnt' read it as first-time feature director Daniel, who has previously made music videos with Plan B, wanted the cast to improvise.

"It would be only on the day, right before the scene that I knew what was happening. To be honest I find that's the best way to work. It's fresh and keeps you on your toes," remarks Conor.

Aaron tries to protect Laila but is vulnerable himself and that was what drew Conor to the role, he says.

"I think he's trying to be this great man to Laila, he's trying to be the perfect boyfriend, but he's a stoner and he doesn't really want to find work," says Conor.

" I could relate a lot to Aaron, not in his background but his personality. I thought, 'I could input a lot of my personality into him'.

" I'm not saying Aaron and I are the same but I could put myself into his shoes and really feel it. I enjoyed playing Aaron, he was a strange wee character, he was quite hidden, quite guarded."

The film has been described as a modern-day western and although the subject of the film was honour killings, Conor says he saw it more of a love story between a young couple desperately trying to find their freedom.

"It was shot on the Yorkshire Moors, such a vast, wide open area, and it has beautiful scenery," says Conor.

"In the film you see all this open space but there is no freedom for them, they are constantly being chased.

"It's intense, and that was always in the back of my mind when I was filming. Even when I was chilling out in the caravan doing a scene you still had that feeling that the door could be kicked in at any moment."

He enjoyed working with Gangs of New York and Outlander star Gary Lewis but says they didn't get much time together when they weren't in scenes as the director enforced separations at all times between Sameena and Conor and the actors playing the men chasing them.

Conor was blown away by the acting skills of first timer Sameena, who has no training and was spotted on the streets of Manchester and asked to audition for the film.

"Everyone was there to help her and she was willing to take advice," he says." The thing was because this was her first film, would she be comfortable?

"For the first couple of days I worked on Neds I was wanting to find out about everything that was going on and who everyone was. Sameena came in as if she had done this her whole life."

After a stint with Scottish Youth Theatre, Conor is keen to do more stage work.

" I want to pursue acting. I just can't get enough of it," he smiles." I want to get as much acting work as I possibly can. I think, ultimately, writing and directing is where I'd love to end up."

Catch Me Daddy opens on February 27.