McAvoy aims for action-hero stardom

After appearing in Wanted with Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy now aims to be the next big action hero.

“I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking man’s action franchise like Bourne,” he says in the August issue of Details.

James – who is married to actress Anne-Marie Duff, isn’t your typical beefcake hero or even particularly Bourne-like.

He tells the mag that he led a relatively quiet lifestyle throughout his 20s, and decided that he didn’t like going out.

“All of my friends got so drunk they couldn’t even walk, let alone dance, and you just stand there going, ’So what am I going to do?”’ he said.