Ray Winstone talks sex and Angelina Jolie

Ray Winstone did not enjoy shooting the loves scenes in his latest film, Compulsion. It's not that he was ashamed of his body: "I know it's not perfect," he told Tim Oglethorpe in the Daily Mail.

"I didn't do a lot of training before I took on this role because I'm playing the guy next door, the bloke who isn't all muscle and six-pack, the one who doesn't bear any sort of resemblance to Brad Pitt."

What bothered him was getting intimate with a virtual stranger - his female co-star Parminder Nagra. "Call me old-fashioned, but I just felt I was taking liberties. You know what I mean? I know I was only playing a character, but there was still a part of me that was thinking: 'I shouldn't be doing this. I shouldn't be touching this young woman here and I shouldn't be touching her there.'"

Still, he could be confident about one thing: however graphic the scenes, he wouldn't get any grief from Elaine, his wife of 28 years. "When I was filming a movie called Beowulf with Angelina Jolie a few years ago, Elaine asked me what I'd been doing all day.

I said: 'Kissing Angelina Jolie.' She didn't turn a hair. Just looked at me and said: 'Well somebody's got to.'"