James McAvoy, The Last King of Scotland

Hailed as the "best British actor of his generation," James McAvoy, who costars with Forest Whitaker in the Idi Amin drama, The Last King of Scotland, has been anointed as the Next Big Thing with four films in his immediate future. Best known in the USA as the half-human, half-faun Mr. Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, McAvoy talks about his Scots upbringing, dramatic training and how he did "battle" with the Last King producers and director to make his Scottish doctor "an egotistical idiot."

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