Oh Mr. Tumnus, you're dead sexy.

I ask you: is there anything on this earth more luscious than a Scottish accent? Search hill, dale, and behind the shrimp scampi leftovers in the back of my refrigerator, and you will most certainly be unable to find anything better.

You might think, then, what with his having played one of the leads in a movie called The Last King of Scotland, that it might have occurred to me going into the Starter for 10 junket that actor James McAvoy was, you know, Scottish. But I haven't seen The Last King of Scotland yet, (I know, I know, bad critic), and McAvoy plays a Brit in Starter for 10, so in my mind he sounded like an English university student.

Thus I experienced a bit of a shock--and utter failure of all mental faculties-- when McAvoy came into the room for our roundtable interview and let loose in those heavenly Glaswegian tones. Couple that with the fact that he's funny, too, and it was all I could do not to throw my panties at him. But I'm a professional after all, and a married one, so I thought it better to control myself.

McAvoy's new romantic comedy Starter for 10 is being billed as the British teen '80s movie that never was, and that suits McAvoy just fine. He's a big fan of movies like The Sure Thing and Class (which starred quintessential '80s icons Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy). "I always thought [Andrew McCarthy] was really a brilliant actor when I was younger," said McAvoy. "So...getting to do something that had the sensibilities about an '80s American movie kind of felt like I came through on all those films I loved."

All the John Cusack and John Hughes movies available may not have made quite as big an impression on him, however, as Mannequin. "Kim Cattrall was only in my dreams about 15 times. [laughing] A 12-year-old boy with dirty fantasies about a mannequin."

McAvoy was drawn to Starter for 10 immediately. "It's one of those things--you quite often read comedies and you go, 'That's meant to be funny. That's meant to be funny--how embarrassing, it isn't. Oh no, okay, right, I'll have to fall over to make that funny," said McAvoy. "But this was making me laugh out loud reading it."

But liking a script and getting the part are two very different things. "It's always really horrible when you're sitting in an audition room," he quipped. "You're waiting for them and you're like...Five guys who look just like me. I look like every one of them. They're all slightly better looking than me. Oh no."

McAvoy is still relatively low-profile in the United States. He is perhaps best known as Mr. Tumnus, the faun in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Unfortunately, he won't be in a Narnia sequel anytime soon. The next Narnia book on the filming docket is Prince Caspian, which doesn't include his character. "Tumnus isn't in any of the other ones until the last book, which is called The Last Battle," he explained. "So maybe when I'm 45 they'll come to me."

Luckily, with the success of films like The Last King of Scotland, it's getting easier for McAvoy to get other parts that he wants. "That's very welcome." His upcoming projects include a revenge thriller with Morgan Freeman called Wanted and another movie with Khazakstani director Timur Bekmambetov. "From the country that Borat comes from. His sister is not the number four prostitute in Khazakstan," said McAvoy.

But success aside, McAvoy isn't so high profile that losing his privacy is a problem. "I think you need to be Jude Law and stuff for it to be really horrible." Then again, one of the journalists suggested, Jude Law did do some rather tabloid-worthy stuff. McAvoy had to agree. "When I get kids, maybe we'll get a nanny and I'll f**k her and that'll be a nightmare." The moral of the story? "Don't have kids, and you'll stay out of the tabloids."

Whatever you say, James. Just keep talking.

McAvoy's new movie, Starter for 10 opens this Friday, February 23.

Check out ReelzChannel.com's Starter for 10 page for clips from the film and more!