The Daily Record has recently published a fantastic article about James. In it James discusses his past and remaining under the limelight, the long road of putting together The Last Station, the reasoning behind his infrequency with working with his wife, and what it's like to work with Robert Redford in The Conspirator.

You can read part of the article below.

Much thanks to 'rst' from the messageboard for finding the article.

Source: The Daily Record

JAMES MCAVOY has refused to work with actress wife Anne-Marie Duff in case they become "a target".

The Scots actor feared they would suffer in the spotlight the same way Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez or Liz Taylor and Richard Burton did.

But the couple - who met on the set of Channel 4's comedy Shameless - are finally appearing on the big screen together.

However, they only accepted their roles because they don't play opposite each other in The Last Station In fact, James even has a sex scene with Kerry Condon in the movie, which is about War And Peace author Leo Tolstoy.

James, 30, said: "We've been offered a hell of a lot of parts playing opposite each other in films and TV and we just turn them down.

"If you do work together you put yourself up, you make yourself a target and you make your relationship a target and all of that. We're very keen not to do that.

"But in The Last Station we don't play opposite each other in the film. We don't really act with each other hardly at all."

Filmed in Germany and also starring Helen Mirren, it was the idea of being together working on a film but not working together in the film that was the clincher.

James added: "It was nice to spend those two months together rather than spending those two months apart, while she's off somewhere doing God knows what and I'm off somewhere doing God knows what. So it was fine. It was quite easy with this one."

Gerard Butler has surpassed James as Scotland's hottest Hollywood actor - but he's probably quite happy with that.

After three years of being hyped, James seems to have ducked from the limelight.

Since his worldwide breakout role as Mr Tumnus in 2005's The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, he hasn't put a foot wrong.

Despite Forest Whitaker's Oscar win, James was still a standout in The Last King Of Scotland, as he was opposite Keira Knightley in Atonement.

James then showed he could do action too, kicking ass in Wanted opposite Angelina Jolie last year.

He's currently working on Oscar-winning director Robert Redford's latest film The Conspirator, about the only woman executed as an accessory in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

He also goes back to comedy and will film I'm With Cancer with Seth Rogen next year.

He admitted Redford is working him hard - asking him to ditch his Scots accent and speak with an American one, even off the set.

"Bob wants me to stay in an American accent all the time," he winced. "I'm trying to but I just can't be bothered all the time.

"I'm trying to make Bob happy, but that's an exhausting task.

"I'll get there eventually, hopefully, one day. So, no. I'm not particularly method with either my accents or my acting."

While Gerard and Ewan McGregor struggle with accents, James seems to have no problem and knows using just a Scots accent wouldn't have got him where he is now.