McAvoy: 'People mistake me for Ewan'

James McAvoy has revealed that he sometimes gets mistaken for Ewan McGregor.

The Wanted star, who was brought up in Scotland, like McGregor, says that sometimes people think he is Irish or even Australian.

McAvoy told The Scotsman: "Even now, in America, people will go, 'Hey, I didn't know you were Irish.' You go, 'I'm not.' They go, 'What? Where are you from? Australia?' What?

"People hear your accent and go, 'Are you Ewan McGregor?' I look nothing like him." He added that people sometimes say: "You're the guy from Wanted."

Talking about him and his wife Anne-Marie Duff's attitude to fame, McAvoy added: "We keep our noses clean and keep our stuff private. We don't have affairs, we don't turn up to parties, we don't fall out of places drunk. We're not that interesting.

"I don't wear a dress where you can see my knickers when I'm getting out of a taxi. Do you know what I mean? I find all that weird. I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much."