Jamie Bell loved playing old-fashioned heroic role in 'Tintin'

Jamie Bell has revealed that he loved playing an "old-fashioned" hero in Steven Spielberg's motion-capture film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn.

The English actor said that the tale of valiant adventurer Tintin and his trusty dog Snowy is vastly different to other action-adventure blockbusters out right now.

Bell told The AP: "[Tintin is] a great heroic character that is straight-laced, old-fashioned and doesn't rely on anything but just natural instinct. I don't think we see those kind of heroes anymore."

Bell described Tintin as "everything that you want to be", and said that he had hoped to play the explorer ever since he was a child.

"When I found out, A, they were making a film of Tintin, I was immediately excited. But, B, when I found out that they wanted me to play him, it was ridiculous," the star commented.

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is now open in UK cinemas and is released on December 21 in the US.

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Watch Jamie Bell discuss The Adventures of Tintin with Digital Spy below: