Rowan Atkinson admits he has bowed to the inevitable with his new movie Mr Bean's Holiday, .

It was never his intention to make a sequel to the original film which was a huge international success 10 years ago. But the demand was always there, "I wanted to do something different because by the time we made the movie in 1997 I'd been doing Mr Bean fairly solidly for about eight years and I thought it was about time I did something else," says Atkinson.

"That's why I did Johnny English four years ago. So that became the next project and took three years to get out. Since then there have been a few other distractions, so it's taken this long to get round to it."

The first thing that occurred to him for a sequel was the title, but not the one they finished up with.

"It started off with the title Mr and Mrs Bean, the idea of almost a kind of quasi-romantic comedy. But we finally felt it was a bit too cheap and cheerful. We fancied a something just a bit simpler but at the same time a slightly more sophisticated idea."

That more sophisticated idea was taking Mr Bean on a road trip through France to achieve his dream of a beach holiday on the Riviera.

"I think the big difference between this and the previous Bean film is that this is sort of Mr Bean being proactive rather than reactive," Atkinson explains: "In the first film things happen to him and he has to just go along with it whereas Mr. Bean's Holiday is all his idea and he sets off on his journey - and, of course, it's not as smoothas he was hoping."

Although he will forever be identified with Mr Bean, Atkinson doesn't seem to mind too much because he enjoys the role.

"I find that I know him. He's a child, and like a child he has that tension within his personality between the desire to conform and to do what adults expect and the desire to do what you like.

"And I feel that in me quite often," he admits. "If there is parallel between me and Bean, that's it. You know the desire to run down the street with no clothes on and the desire to wear a suit and walk normally."

Mr Bean's Holiday came about as a response to public demand, but is this a swansong for Bean.

"Probably," says Atkinson cautiously, "but I'm certainly not saying never. Never say never, but at the moment it feels highly unlikely. However, you never know." Brad & Angelina's Glasgow connection on

Glasgow director Kevin Macdonald is heading for Hollywood after the Oscar success of The Last King Of Scotland.

The documentary maker is to make a thriller starring Brad Pitt.

Pitt has agreed to star in an Americanised movie version of the BBC's State of Play which will be directed by Macdonald.

He plays a reporter who is working on a story about the murder of a Congressman's mistress and uncovers something far more distressing.

In the original BBC version Pitt's role was played by John Simm.

Pitt and his other half, Angelina Jolie, are both huge fans of The Last King of Scotland.

While he's working with the director, she will work with one of the stars. Jolie is to star in sci-fi drama Wanted in which James McAvoy plays an aspiring hitman who wants to take over the family business. Lost's secret? Nobody knows

I can reveal the big secret behind Lost. Nobody knows anything.

Says who? Says Rodrigo Santoro who plays Paulo in the series but is almost unrecognisable with his head shaved as the God-King Xerxes in 300.

"Everybody thinks we all know what's going to happen," says Rodrigo. "But it's not true, none of the actors really know."

The Brazilian star says the cast get their lines only a few days before shooting.

Rodrigo says he can understand the internet protests about Paulo who appears to have been parachuted on to the island to stand around in the background.

"I know all the things that people are saying and it is a lot of fun. But," he adds, "there are big things happening for Paulo in episode 14. I don't know what they are but it's going to be great."