James McAvoy is celebrating passing his driving test after just two weeks of lessons.
The Atonement star recently embarked on an intensive course in a bid to gain his licence before his first child with wife Anne-Marie Duff is born later this year (10).

And MCAvoy is now a fully licenced driver, according to Britain’s The Sun.

A source tells the publication, “With the baby coming James thought it was important to be able to get his family safely (around).

“Once he decided to do it, he wanted to do it quickly.”

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James McAvoy is “intimidated” by his wife.

The actor – who stars with 39-year-old spouse Anne-Marie Duff in new movie ‘The Last Station’ – admits he is in awe of her acting skills and thinks she keeps getting better.

He said: “I’ve always been intimidated by how good an actress she is – and no less now. Especially after watching the last two things she did – playing Margot Fonteyn in the BBC production ‘Margot’ and playing John Lennon’s mum in ‘Nowhere Boy’. She was just incredible.”

The couple just announced they are expecting their first child and the 30-year-old star says he is “excited” about the new arrival.

When asked how he feels about becoming a father, he said: “Excited, nervous, the usual emotions, I suppose. The usual healthy emotions. Excited and all that.”

Despite his fame, James is still uncomfortable with the attention he receives and finds the fascination with his life “weird”.

He added to the Scotsman.com: “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.”

He finds it particularly bizarre as he is often mistaken for another Scottish-born actor.

He explained: “People hear your accent and go, ‘Are you Ewan McGregor?’. I look nothing like him.”

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James McAvoy admits there are more awkward things than intimate scenes with co-stars on movie sets.

James McAvoy isn’t worried about sex scenes.

The ‘Last Station’ actor, who stars alongside Dame Helen Mirren and his wife Anne-Marie Duff in the biopic of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, admits getting intimate on camera can be “awkward”, but they are much simpler scenes to film than many others.

He said: “It’s one of those things actors have to do. It’s an easy thing to deal with because it’s one of the defining aspects of our job. It’s what we have to do.

“Those scenes are dead awkward to do and all that, but at least you know what they are. There’s much harder parts and much more awkward parts and much more confrontational parts of our job, than those what you would think are dead sexy scenes.”

Although James doesn’t mind intimate encounters, he says awkwardness can arise on a film set, particularly if there is miscommunication between an actor and a director.

He explained to BBC Breakfast: “When you just come in and say, ‘This scene is rubbish and I don’t know how to make it better’ and the director thinks it’s excellent. That’s more awkward.”

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Actors James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff are expecting their first child, they have announced.

Speaking at the London premiere of his latest film, The Last Station, McAvoy said: “I’m totally looking forward to being a dad.”

The 30-year-old said his wife looked “fantastic” and called their forthcoming baby a “Mc-Duff adventure”.
Duff, 39, who also stars in The Last Station, met McAvoy during filming the Channel 4 series Shameless in 2003.

Dame Helen Mirren, who appears alongside the couple in the movie, said she thought the news was “fantastic”.

She added: “It’s wonderful news and it couldn’t happen to a greater couple.

“I’ve known Anne-Marie for a long time, long before I knew James. They’re a great, great couple, both unbelievably talented, both extremely nice and hard-working and professional, so it’s going to be a great baby.”

Duff, who starred in the BBC4 film Margot as prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn, recently spoke about wanting to become a mother.

“I would love to have a baby. I’m not putting it off but unfortunately bodies don’t work that way,” she said.
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McAvoy has starred in several Hollywood films including Atonement, Last King of Scotland and the Narnia Chronicles.

Duff won plaudits for her role as Joan of Arc at the National Theatre. Her most recent role was as John Lennon’s mother in Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy.

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Many congratulations to James and Anne-Marie

James McAvoy has revealed that his fans send him knitwear.

The actor believes that his admirers want to look after him, the Daily Record reports.

“The small but very nice fanbase I have is very lovely,” McAvoy said. “I don’t even get sent weird stuff – I don’t get sent underwear.

“I’m more likely to get sent a scarf someone’s knitted because they want to take care of me.”

McAvoy recently denied rumours that he will play Ian Fleming in a new movie.

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James McAvoy and his “The Last Station” co-star Kerry Condon turned Good Samaritans recently when a flight they were stuck on failed to get off the ground – they handed out muffins and water to their fellow stranded passengers.

The two stars boarded their plane at London’s Heathrow Airport two hours late and then had to wait a further eight hours until the flight took off.

But, rather than complain about the delay, the two co-stars decided to make the best out of a bad situation.

McAvoy tells WENN, “Everybody was in really good spirit. Thousands and thousands of people were trying to get their bags out of a mountain of bags but it was hilarious.

“Kerry got a big box of muffins and I got a lot of water and calcium tablets and we went around finding children who were crying and really annoying their parents, so we were like, ‘Do you want a muffin?’”

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