Paul Bettany - Wants To Be Wallace

Paul Bettany Wants To Play Wallace.PAUL BETTANY has pin-pointed his dream movie role, in a live-action version of animated hit WALLACE & GROMIT.The British star is convinced he'd make a perfect Wallace, because they share the same character traits.Bettany says, "I'm preternaturally talented at eating cheese and drinking beer. If there's ever a live-action Wallace & Gromit, I'm there."In other news Paul Bettany is still adjusting to his life in the US with wife Jennifer Connelly, but insists he won't give up his English sense of style. The star left his homeland to join his Oscar-winning wife in Brooklyn, New York City, and is still getting used to the transition. He explains, "When I first arrived here to live, Jennifer had brought me over like a mail-order bride.

"I turned up in this tiny one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan where she had been living for 10 years.

"We had a baby on the way, and I thought, 'No way am I living like this' "So we found this neighbourhood in Brooklyn with lots of kids and great bars and restaurants." Bettany insists he won't compromise when it comes to his sense of style, because it would just look wrong. He adds, "I'm English, so I can't wear a baseball cap. I'd look like white trash, like I should have a beer and a dog called Skeeter. "I do wear a (New York) Mets (baseball) jersey, though - but simply to annoy my father-in-law.""So we found this neighbourhood in Brooklyn with lots of kids and great bars and restaurants."

Bettany insists he won't compromise when it comes to his sense of style, because it would just look wrong.

He adds, "I'm English, so I can't wear a baseball cap. I'd look like white trash, like I should have a beer and a dog called Skeeter.

"I do wear a (New York) Mets (baseball) jersey, though - but simply to annoy my father-in-law."