Gwen Stefani's been talking to Radio 1 about acting opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. She's playing thirties screen goddess Jean Harlow in Martin Scorsese's new film 'The Aviator'. She only has two lines but said she was worried about getting them right. Leonardo plays the eccentric billionaire and playboy Howard Hughes who had a fling with Jean. Gwen had nothing but praise for him but said he takes his acting very seriously:" He was real sweet, he was just very cuddly in the sense that the night that I got there we all went for a drink and he tried to give that little comfort of 'This is what it's going to be like.' I never did it before." "The next thing I knew I was sat in the limousine, there's no cameras in there or anything but you could tell that he was already in character. That really scared me. I was like 'Well, I guess I'm her now'." Gwen Stefani reckons her movie debut is going to be something extra special. Gwen says even though she has a small role in the movie - she was proud to be part of it: "I have two lines in the movie. They made it sound like I was a star. Which I didn't mind." "I was like 'OK, go ahead, say I was a star'. But it was amazing working with the top of the top of the top." "Martin Scorcese, Leonardo Di Caprio, there wasn't one person that was like, 'Oh yeah, whatever, this is my job'. Everyone was like 'Oh my God, this is so incredible'."

Farrell for Bond? You've gotta be ******* joking. The debate over who should play the next Bond is intensifying.  Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman and Jude Law's names are being bandied about but last week Pierce Brosnan told Radio1 he reckons Colin Farrell should be the next 007.  But now Colin has responded - he says he's not interested and thinks Pierce is just 'messing' with him: "Pierce has ******* hung me man. Pierce is telling everyone I'm going to be saying ******* shaken not stirred."  "I was with some friends the other day and they wouldn't stop humming the James Bond theme tune in the pub. I was going '**** off'." "I've never heard a thing about it, he's just messing around with me because I'm Irish." Pierce says he wasn't joking when he suggested Colin - but admits he was drinking at the time:  "It seemed like a good idea in Dublin the other night with a pint of Guiness in my hand. He's a great lad. He's acquitted himself grandly in the game of acting. He's got it sussed. He's got the talent for it, the guts for it."  "He's set himself high in the game here now. If they were wise enough and brave enough and cool enough and sharp enough, they should give him the role. He'd be a great fella to do it." The next Bond film has been put back until 2006.  Pierce has also confirmed that he suggested Quentin Tarantino for the next Bond director but producers 'Threw cold water on it mighty fast'.  He also said he and Tarantino have met to talk about a rival Bond project but nothing has happened yet.

People walk out of Nicole's Birth. Nicole Kidman's new movie is out today and its causing a bit of a stir. It's called 'Birth' and she plays a widow who's about to be remarried only to be confronted by a 10 year old boy who claims to be a reincarnation of her dead husband.  Some critics walked out of a screening of the movie at the Venice Film Festival and apparently some people booed because in one scene she shares a bath and kisses the boy.  Apparently they both wore flesh coloured suits. Nicole reckons people are focusing on the wrong thing though and they should concentrate on issues the film deals with - like life after death:  "It's interesting because when people see the movie that sort of dispells it."  "At the same time the notion of a ten year old boy saying he's a thirty five year old woman's dead husband re-incarnated is kind of, it makes people either talk or think. I don't know."

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