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We'll be seeing a lorra lorra more of
Laura at the flicks
Interview - Laura Fraser by RUSSELL BLACKSTOCK
Sexy star is
suddenly No 1 Scot in films
Luscious Laura Fraser has gone from virtual nobody to
virtual superstar - thanks to Virtual Sexuality.
Her steamy new flick which opens tonight will see the
Scot become one of the hottest new names in movies.
Laura first set temperatures soaring when she tumbled
into bed with heart throb Leonardo DiCaprio in The
Man With The Iron Mask.
Now she's set to make the big screens sizzle again. She's
sure to be a big hit as a frustrated teenage virgin who
creates her own computerised cyber-lover in steamy Virtual
Sexuality.
Next month she'll be seen scoring with hunky Max Beesley
in footy movie The Match.
But screen siren Laura admits her get-up-and-go attitude
to life made it hard to play a naive 17-year-old in her
latest hit role.
She said: "I was worried I'd look old with all the
shadows under my eyes, but it turned out fine.
Fancy
"It was a bit of a challenge to play someone so
young because my character Justine is a wet behind the
ears 17-year-old.
"She goes around saying to guys 'would you fancy me
if I wasn't a teenage virgin' - which is childish.
"When I was 17 I was ready to move into my own flat
and was more street-wise than Justine.
"I thought Virtual Sexuality was
light, fun and silly - and I'm glad it is capturing
people's imaginations."
It's a far cry from the days when the 23-year-old started
out as Joe McFadden's teenage girlfriend in the
low-budget Glasgow gang drama Small Faces.
Since then she's blossomed into one of the most
sought-after leading ladies in the business.
On her way to the top, she's worked with some of the
biggest names in Hollywood.
Screen legend Sir Anthony Hopkins was so impressed, he
has snapped her up to star in his new epic Titus.
Laura isn't afraid to use her looks to get noticed.
She exchanged hot-lipped kisses with Helen Baxendale as
her lesbian lover in the film The Investigator.
And she landed a leading role in the brutal Ulster comedy
Divorcing Jack by boasting she had
bedded DiCaprio.
Pretend
She said: "When I went for the part, the first thing
I did was introduce myself then I told the producer I'd
just done this sex scene with DiCaprio. That sealed it on
the spot."
But Laura revealed the famous clinch wasn't all she'd
hoped for.
She said: "For my audition for The Man In
The Iron Mask I had to pretend to have an orgasm
and say the line 'I've never known love until I'd known
the love of a king.'
"I thought: 'I feel so stupid. I'm a whore! I'm a
whore!'
"Leonardo was a bit too cocky as well. When we met
he looked me straight in the eye and asked me: 'Well,
what kind of orgasm are we going to have? Will it be an
Uuuuuh Ahhh or an Ooooh Ooooh.' What do you normally do,
Laura?'
"In the end, I felt a bit like a glorified extra.
"But who cares? It certainly got me noticed."
Laura left school at 16 to study drama at Langside
College, Glasgow.
Fiercely ambitious, it wasn't long before she moved to
London to share a flat with actress pal Anna Friel.
Since then she's never looked back.
And although she'll cause shock waves by romping with Max
Beesley in The Match, it's her next big
role that will catapult her to international stardom.
She's just finished five gruelling months of filming in
Rome for the #20m epic Titus with
Hopkins and Jessica Lange.
She said: "I play Lavinia, who is the daughter of
Titus, who gets raped by her two brothers and then they
cut out her tongue and chop off her hands.
"I had to have a plate put in my mouth which I kept
choking on."
Worry
But despite her meteoric rise, Laura admits that she
still fears it could all end tomorrow.
She added: "Right now it is trendy to be Scottish.
But you just worry when the bubble might burst.
"That's why we need talented Scots who can make it
anywhere in the world."
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