Acting

Are you prepared for this role to make you a heartthrob for teenage girls everywhere?

"I don't think about that yet. But hopefully, touch wood."

How did you get the role?

"I was the first person they saw, and oddly enough the last person too. I went through this gruelling process of audition after audition. I finally got to the stage where I thought I couldn't face another one, but that was when they offered me the role. It was fantastic, a great opportunity."

John Millar You were in Signs - what about working second time round with Night?

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Colin Farrell was in top form during his brief meeting with local journalists, here in Los Angeles to promote the small, indie film, A Home at the End of the World. Oblivious to the rules surrounding smoking, the perennially unflustered Irishman, had a bottle of Guinness in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Nothing has changed for the 28-year-old who, when we met during the Daredevil junket, mentioned his mother's concerns over his love of profanity, smoking and various other extra curricular activities.

Los Angeles At the conclusion of the new Will Smith movie I, Robot, a fellow audience member was heard to remark: 'That Will Smith is such a personable young actor'. The next day, the casually attired movie star says that he is more than comfortable with that particular persona.

Question: You look far too young to have seen the original television series - how did both of you get into Starsky and Hutch?

Pierce Brosnan looked relaxed enough at a Los Angeles hotel room talking up his latest film, Laws of Attraction. Brosnan was more than happy to take on an unBond-like role in this battle-of-the-sexes comedy, in which he and Julianne Moore play a pair of hugely successful, yet sparring divorce attorneys who eventually find themselves inexplicably in love and in Ireland.

Brosnan's Daniel is self-effacing, charming and in love with the idea of marriage and commitment. Are actor and character alike?

Jackie Chan is still happily hurting himself with his entertaining brand of martial arts knockabout, even if co-star Owen Wilson did sow the seed of self-doubt once or twice while shooting action comedy Shanghai Knights. 

Many an actress will tell you they want to be taken seriously for more than their sexy screen persona. Halle Berry proved that with Monster's Ball a few years back, and now, at the height of her own success, comes another Monster played by the leggy and statuesque Theron.

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Julia Roberts begins by excusing herself for having the flu.

"I keep on throwing up, which is quite disgusting, but don't worry, I'm not contagious," Roberts says laughingly. Never a big fan of press junkets, with a reputation for being difficult, the Oscar-winning actress was surprisingly good-humoured when promoting the Fifties-set Mona Lisa Smile last month.